The Wind Developers like Angus King and son ( of First Wind), and now starry eyed environmentalists (turned wind shill) like Katie Chapman, are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and
entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease
agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.
Fewer Mainers are now ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who now have an idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
The area ruined is bathed by health-impacting infra-sound and environmental fracturing for 3 miles in all direction and more.
Wind scoundrel, snake-oil sellers will reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine.
They bribe with other half baked schemes.
Talk is cheap!
Subsidy sucking wind associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment.
They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexes to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more Katies's Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
It is simple.
Shill for someone with some ethics if that is all you can do with your Spainish degree Katie.
BTW, the Border Control could use your skills in Texas and Arizona ; that would provide you a more secure useful future.
The Citizens of Peru will not stand for Spainish ,EDP bunk !
n early 2009 the Socialist government of Spain reduced alternative energy subsidies by 30%. Calzada continues:
"At that point the whole pyramid collapsed. They are firing thousands of people. BP closed down the two largest solar production plants in Europe. They are firing between 25,000 and 40,000 people...."
"What do we do with all this industry that we have been creating with subsidies that now is collapsing? The bubble is too big. We cannot continue pumping enough money. ...
The President of the Renewable Industry in Spain (wrote a column arguing that) ...the only way is finding other countries that will give taxpayers' money away to our industry to take it and continue maintaining these jobs."
That "other country" is the United States of America.
n early 2009 the Socialist government of Spain reduced alternative energy subsidies by 30%. Calzada continues:
"At that point the whole pyramid collapsed. They are firing thousands of people. BP closed down the two largest solar production plants in Europe. They are firing between 25,000 and 40,000 people...."
"What do we do with all this industry that we have been creating with subsidies that now is collapsing? The bubble is too big. We cannot continue pumping enough money. ...
The President of the Renewable Industry in Spain (wrote a column arguing that) ...the only way is finding other countries that will give taxpayers' money away to our industry to take it and continue maintaining these jobs."
That "other country" is the United States of America.
LePage just articulates what Rooks and his wind obfuscators and deceivers do not want anyone to hear.
Wind is free, but the Industrial wind complexes are not.
They are only called “ wind farms” because Rooks and friends are milking the subsidies and the PTC's and other financial benefits from us , the taxpayers .
From their costly rare earth metals (from mainly China), to mountaintop environmental destruction, wind is very costly to this society.
In the attempt to harness low density wind to create electricity, all along the way, the costs mount, and the dollars are dense indeed .
All winds costs are upfront Rooks declares, but doesn't say where the money comes from.
I suppose we taxpayers are the ones who pay the upfront costs and prevent the likes of snake-oil salesman King from taking the risk. First Wind and other subsidy scammers of this unsavory hedging plot and risk lowering LLC creators take our money and laugh all to the their foreign accounts
From the billions in unneeded wind transmission lines , to the damage of abutter land value and health consequences from infra-sound to the low job creation at high unit cost, wind is not cheap for anyone.
The minor benefits are overridden by the numerous costs to society in the long run.
But why worry about this, when tens of millions can be scammed to the elitists from a fad that will be dead in this decade?
The natural gas will flow, and the oil production will grow, and the wind will blow.
The subsidy money is finite however, as Congress now realizes this Mr. Rooks.
LePage is a breath of honest fresh air .
It is what we get from an item that determines its worth, and wind is much better at blowing subsidy money than making electrons flow.
Congress now realizes this, and the funds will hopefully stop flowing this year to this fad.
Wind is one of the most costly fads this society has created in recent history .
Only a the elite benefit, and we pay for it, unless we smarten up, and that is what is occurring now.
Now we all know how some undeserving wealthy leverage and make money, they put the risk you and I.
What Rooks really dislikes is that this governor is very public in spreading the truth, and the truth will set us free(and lower our taxes).
Wind Industrial scammers do not like such a public voice barging into their inside game.
This are the only way to describe the AWEA and the purveyors of ruinous, feckless, wasteful and uneconomic wind complexes.
The financial subsidy scamming of our tax system to destroy areas of Maine is now known, and being ordinanced out by all aware communities in Maine.
This process has only started.
From the perverted civil process, lack of transparency, squelch clauses, bribery and crony capitalistic process; wind power is a lie.
Abutters hear the complexes from miles around, yes miles!
It transforms rural areas into noise zones.
Loss of recreational area,loss of natural habitat, loss of property value, loss of sleep, loss of health.
An “illegal taking “with no financial recourse is occurring to citizens of Maine.
The abutters have had little legal recourse to date.
Desecration of Maine has occurred in several communities to date.
Civil action in communities has slowed down the wind destruction, and hopefully will kill the wind scamming process Anderson represents , before more harm is done to Maine.
The candidacy of Angus King for Maine Senate will bring this wind scamming even more to the public eye.
Many enemies have been made in Maine by the likes of Mr .Anderson, Angus King, and other wind scoundrels.
By their daily lies , and by the the despicable damage to the soul of Maine, more Mainers are now aware.
Now, many act, everywhere , everyplace , to this foul industry and to the perpetrators of the Wind Scam!
"The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."
Wind is proven to be a subsidy farce.
Hello Solyndra!
All it does is provide greenbacks to the scoundrel wind elite, off the backs of the many.
And lets face it , that is what the criticism of LePage's and Flethcer's common sense energy plans are about.
End the Wind Subsidy Scam in Maine!
Wind and solar companies are net tax beneficiaries who wish to defeat Lepage's energy plan.
Taxpayers would save billions of dollars if wind and solar produced no energy at all!
A July 2011 Energy Department study found that oil, natural gas and coal received an average of 64 cents of subsidy per megawatt hour in 2010.
Wind power received nearly 100 times more, or $56.29 per megawatt hour."
The wind industry is comprised of liars and deceivers, and is a useless waste of taxpayer dollars.
I suppose Sun Journal has applied some basic math to Wind costs and published them , have they not?
I suggest reading the EIA data, and then applying some common sense and basic economics to their poorly researched editorials criticizing LePage's Energy plans.
In reference to the merger of Emera/First Wind/Algonquin / others , concerning PUC Doc 2011-170.
Guess what, even First Wind, (Enron's Bastard Son), bathed in special treatment in Maine by the expedited wind law, has to follow the laws of this state. The deal hopefully will be killed, as detrimental to all Maine citizens. It would result in increased costs of electricity for all, from feckless wind scamming. Fortunately, our Public Advocate, Eric Bryant, is doing his job, even if the Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, as well as the Bangor Daily (BTW, part of the aboove case) are not.
So, look into the public minutes of this testimony. Fitst Wind is in big trouble, now under appeal by them as a sore loser. The appeal hopefully will be thrown out. They defied subpoena of documents as well, relating to Kurt Adams .
The deal should be dead, dead. In addition First Wind should be banned and sanctioned from any further business in this state.That may occur.
(from the transcript below, Jan 25, 2012,PUC Doc 2011-170)
" So there's a lot of violations here. Not just by the
non-parties but by the Petitioners themselves. This case is
not governed by the rule of the deal or the rule of corporate
profit or the viability of unregulated enterprise. It's
governed by the rule of law. The rules broken by Petitioners
and their counterparties to the pending transactions are not
about missing a deadline or failing to three-hole punch data
responses. They're rules of substance, integrity, and ethics.
It's the ex parte rule which rule should not be treated lightly
by the Commission or the Examiners. The rule was adopted, in
fact, in 1996 following a case in which NYNEX had others
interested in the outcome who were not parties attempt to
contact Commissioners after the Examiners' Report came out.
Rule 760-A was a reaction to that and, in fact, in the rule
adopting that new amendment, the Commission said, "Our primary
objective in addressing this issue is to prevent similar
behavior by parties to our proceedings in the future. The
purpose of the rule amendments is to make our ex parte
prohibition abundantly clear so there's no question about the
extent of its reach. And we seek only to ensure that
participation occurs at a time and in a manner that is fair to
all parties."
BROWN & MEYERS (transcriber)
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The violations that I've discussed are egregious and,
in my practice, unprecedented by a utility subject to
regulation. Violations such as this must be dealt with firmly
and swiftly. The public demands that PUC process be one of
integrity. The public must be able to trust that their
interests are being handled by this Commission and that it
keeps its house in order.
Now Sun Journal, is this news?
Or does your clear bias prevent the truth from being disclosed?
"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy," Obama said in his address. "Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I'm requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk."
So here is this fact even Obama, "Mr. Renewable" gets.
WE HAVE PLENTY OF DENSE , RELIABLE FOSSIL FUEL AVAILABE DOMESTICALLY, and from our CANADIAN friends.(unless we go to war with Quebec).
Technology advances, and oil drilling as well is much safer than it was 20 years ago (even after the BP accident).
Drilling offshore of Maine might indeed be a wonderful way to expand Maine's job base.
BTW, Canadian Maritime drilling is expanding, do you fear a spill from them as well?
Did you stop flying after the last commercial airline accident BTW?
If you did, then please negate all I have said. I will help you buy a few dense mattresses to pad your rooms from your next earthquake in Maine.
lack of Science.
The first and second laws of thermodynamics cannot be overcome by NON-DENSE,(low-density) electron sources, such as onshore, or offshore wind toys.
Just as Mr. Obama's tune had to change when applying science to energy(which he and his advisors may sometimes think about), if we did not have high levels of domestic energy sources available, we would have to invent them. There is no substitute for oil and natural gas, and he knows this. He also knows there are plenty of them as well, we just have to get them, politics aside.
Obama has to pander to his scientifically naive liberal base for politics, but politics won't power American modernity, ever.He had to get real.
So Anabel, please tell me how offshore wind meets any of the below requirements, any electrical utility knows must be met to turn on your lights, when and if you need them.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.(period)
How does wind meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
Any electric utility must meet the following, well known in the industry to survive.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Can an intermittent source like feckless wind meet these numerous demands?
There is a place for wind and solar (independent residential of industrial use is sometimes economical, but costly), but GRID SCALE....nope.
Oh, when LePage allows the Renewable Option to be selected for use as Your energy supplier, please request the renewable option at a 30 percent premium!
Your neighbor most likely will stick to the standard offer, derived mainly from natural gas and hydro, and nuclear.
"...The rules broken by Petitioners and their counterparties to the pending transactions are not about missing a deadline or failing to three-hole punch data responses. They're rules of substance, integrity, and ethics."
Tony Buxton for Industrial Energy Consumer Group:
"...It makes this kind of proceeding into something other than a legal proceeding. And that's wrong. We realize there's a lot
at stake for some people here, but we have a process for that to come forward and people are bound by what they say and what they do. And we are not only disappointed, we are shocked that this kind of thing could happen at this Commission. And we think the only remedy because of the taint in the Petitioners' filing of incorporating comments that the Petitioner knew were not proper and those having gone to the Commission already, the only remedy is to require those to be rejected and to dismiss this case. If the parties want to go out and put together another deal and come back with another deal, that's their privilege. But to reward them by changing this proceeding to somehow accommodate what they have done here is exactly the wrong thing to do. Thank you.”
ALAN STONE, Skelton, Taintor & Abbott
MR. STONE: "I've been practicing law before this Public Utilities Commission for 37 years, and it's one of the most favorite things I've ever done in my life until this week. I have never seen an abuse of process like has occurred in this case in my history of practice before this Commission, perhaps with the exception of a person who was convicted of a crime.
Administrative agencies, according to the United States Supreme Court, are based on concepts of fair play. We come to this agency with a trust that this Commission and the staff are going to require the parties to play by the rules and play on a level playing field and not proceed in a case in a manner that all they seek to do is win at all costs regardless of what they do. It is so clear what has happened here, as aptly summarized by Eric, by Charlie, and by Tony. It literally makes me sick.
There is no way that we can proceed in this case. The record is tainted. We can't just simply re-open the record to allow them to change the deal when they want to change the deal because they're losing. I mean, to reward, as Tony said, the Petitioners and First Wind and APUC would be terrible, in a word. It would undermine the confidence in this agency, and what this Commission is trying to prevent with regard to this deal is undermine the confidence in the market. You don't
undermine the confidence in the agency.
This is only one group of people's fault. It was a deliberate action. If this were a court of law, this case would be dismissed in a moment. You can't get to a jury five minutes before and say, oops, I screwed up, I should have put more evidence in and then inflict some conduct that causes a mistrial and expect to start all over again. No court would allow that. They would dismiss it with prejudice, and that would be the end of it. And they would impose sanctions and serious ones.
...So the way forward is to simply say no, this deal we've been looking at, this transaction, is only an economic deal to benefit First Wind and Emera. It's not a reliability issue. The question is harm. Well, we know how harmed we're going to be now. If you can't trust these people to comply with the fundamental rules of this Commission, how can you trust them to do anything in the ratepayers' interest? They've proven this point. Mr. Harwood can have all his responses to everything that we've said, but I think the truth will shine through clearly and does. So I join on behalf of Houlton Water Company with the motions that have been made to dismiss this proceeding with prejudice and, in addition, so the record is clear, to strike Petitioners' comments and exceptions in their entirety. If the -- when I say dismiss with prejudice, if there's some other deal that comes together later on that is significantly different from this deal and that is not just a re-packaging to get around a denial, then maybe this Commission might look at it, maybe they won't. But that's for a future date. Right now the remedy is to dismiss it with prejudice.
Thank you.”
This company, First Wind, should be banned , as suggested here, from any dealings in this state.
Individuals directly connected witr this companies business modus operandi and planning in this state, should be closely scrutinized, and and punished as well in accordance to the law.
"By filing their coordinated “exceptions” and letter, First Wind and APUC attempted to subvert the intention and effect of this rule. Therefore, the Examiners correctly excluded APUC’s and First Wind’s filings.
The Petitioners’ actions give rise to particular and very serious concerns.
Petitioners have deliberately attempted to inject new evidence into the record “through the back door,” long after the record closed on December 9, 2011 and at that point in the proceeding where other parties are not afforded a chance to respond, test the evidence through cross examination, engage in discovery, present witnesses, or otherwise have the benefit of the procedural safeguards of an evidentiary record Their Exceptions, containing these new facts, were filed in blatant disregard of at least two of the Commission’s rules and in direct violation of the Examiners’ January 19 Scheduling Order, and in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome. The rules violated are rules of integrity, fundamental fairness and substance, not mere housekeeping rules designed to advance administrative efficiency"
GET THEM OUT OF MAINE!
Petitioners violated Chapter 110 section 760-A(a) and (d~ of the Commission’s Rules. The filing of “exceptions” by APUC and First Wind violated the Ex Parte rule under Section 760-A(a) Petitioners’ subornation of these filings, as evidenced by the references to the filings in Petitioners Exceptions, also violates Section 760-A(d) which reads
No party in a proceeding shall request, encourage, suggest, or provide any assistance to any other person to make a communication that would violate subsection (a) of this section.
8Petitioners chose to engage in coordinated, concerted action with First Wind and APUC to assist them in an improper attempt to have a non-party influence the Commission after the date for filing exceptions, and to inject non-record information into evidence, and to couple this with a direct violation by commingling the prejudicial material into Petitioners own Exceptions. Petitioners deliberately cited to, quoted from, and indeed made such filings a part of their own January 23, 2012 Exceptions. Their awareness of procedural issues is revealed by the first footnote in their Exceptions. Petitioners’ actions were willful, ~vith the expectation that opposing parties would have no opportunity to respond,7 and for the primary purpose of influencing this Commission’s decision.
BANGOR HYDRO ELECTRIC & )
MAINE PUBLIC SERVICE COS. )
Re: Request for Exemptions and for )
Reorganization Approvals )
Docket No. 2011-170
MOTION FOR DISMISSAL
AND SANCTIONS WITH
INCORPORATED MEMORANDUM
February 2, 2012
Now come the Office of the Public Advocate, Houlton Water Company, the Industrial Energy Consumer Group (“I7ECG”), and Boralex, Inc. (“Boralex”)(collectively, the “intervenors”) by and through their respective attorneys and move to dismiss these proceedings or to enter judgment against Bangor Hydro Electric Company and Maine Public Service Company (“Petitioners”) based upon the recommended findings of the Examiners~ Report.
I. INTRODUCTION
Petitioners have intentionally and recklessly violated the Commission’s Rules of Practice and the Examiners’ January 19, 2011 Scheduling Order by filing Exceptions tainted by prejudicial non-record information and by assisting and/or encouraging First Wind Holdings, LLC (“First Wind”) and Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (“APUC”) to file unauthorized comments doing the same. According to the Examiners, these exceptions have been reviewed by the Commissioners. As described herein, further consideration of the case at this point would violate fundamental principles of due process and would be unduly prejudicial to the intervenors in this case. Of equal importance is the fact that the actions of the Petitioners, First Wind and Algonquin Power have damaged the integrity of the adjudicatory process by intentionally exposing the Commissioners and their advisors to information outside of the record that, even if the Commission can ignore, undermines public confidence in the process. Dismissal with prejudice orjudgment against Petitioners are the appropriate remedies and sanctions for Petitioners’ violations of the Commission’s Rules and the January 19 Schedul
Yes, they were paid to collect signatures, as I was told by one of them a few weeks ago.
They could have done a better job. Perhaps they were waiting for more subsidy money to support their next try!
You know how mercenaries work.
The average Mainer would collect signatures for free to LOWER THEIR RATES!
This initiative failed because Mainers want lower rates, not higher ones.
The average Mainer also knows this initiative was supported by Wind Shills from away and self-serving companies like REED & REED.
It should have been called, "Take my money, for MORE EXPENSIVE intermittent sometimes wind electricity."
Most just laughed and turned away, as I did.
Mainers are learning every day now how this renewable thing works.
And as more time passes, a more educated populace will pinch their noses more tightly.
Renewables on Grid Scale are a Subsidy farce, uneconomical and very costly to us all!they expect us to pay for them .
They do little to solve any of our energy concerns.
Solyndra any one? Beacon Power? First Wind?
He knows, We want lower rates, Not higher ones from SCAMS!
LePage and Fletcher know this well.
Well, does that make sense?
You Bet!
Bring on the Hydro and Gas Governah!
A new PAC has formed to demand lower rates for all of us .
Now , I wonder if they can get those signatures --to Lower Rates, from dense energy sources,
I for one, would collect those signature, FOR FREE!
Please read the below if you are interested in facts.
The zealotry of the non -scientific RPS religous sect In Maine is not interested in FACTS.
DARN THEOSE PESKY FACTS!
LePage , as a realistic governor and business person knows the following:
The Report the White House Doesn’t Want You To Read, nor do the Zealots of RPS.:
Neither do Rep. Fitts and Hinck of the Maine EUT !
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WASHINGTON D.C.,Dec 6, 2011
The Institute for Energy Research released today a groundbreaking NorthAmerican EnergyInventory exposing the decades-long myth that the U.S. is running out of coal, oil, and natural gas because of inadequate domestic supplies. As a part of
IER’s year long “Energy for America” campaign, the report
details the vast energy resources that could power the nation’s
future, if not for government policy that stands in the way.
“The current administration and its green energy allies in business and in
Washington appear willing to drive up the price of energy for
American consumers by limiting access to our vast resources. For the
past several years, taxpayer dollars have been spent to fund unproven
green energy pipe dreams, while Americans have been denied the
opportunity to utilize the coal, oil, and natural gas that is
literally under our feet,” said IER President Tom Pyle about the
report.
“This energy report should change the conversation in Washington and
promote policies that reproduce nationwide the energy boom in places
like North Dakota, where unemployment is at now at 3.5 percent (the
lowest in the nation) and domestic production on private lands has
more than tripled in the last five years. The Institute for Energy
Research is proud to release this report, the culmination of months
of research and analysis by IER experts. We have drawn from a broad
array of government, industry, and university data to present hard
facts — not myths — about our energy future."
The report presents a clearer picture than the anti-fracking, anti-drilling, and
anti-exploring ideologues in Washington want the American people tos see.
Among the report’s findings are:
- When combined with resources from Canada and Mexico, the total recoverable
oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion barrels. That’s more than
the entire world has used in 150 years, and sufficient to fuel the
present needs in the United States for the next 250 years.
-In the last 30 years, the United States produced 77 billion barrels of
oil, which was more than 150 percent of the estimated reserves in
1980.
-The total amount of recoverable natural gas in North America is
approximately 4.2 quadrillion (4,244 trillion) cubic feet. That is
enough natural gas in North America to last for the next 175 years at
current rates of consumption.
- There is more recoverable natural gas in North America, Canada, and Mexico
than the combined proved reserves in Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, and Turkmenistan.
-North America has more than 497 billion short tons of recoverable coal, or
nearly three times as much as Russia, which has the world’s second
largest reserves. In fact, North America’s recoverable coal
resources are bigger than the five largest non-North American
countries’ reserves combined (Russia, China, Australia, India,
Ukraine.)
-A scarcity of good policies, not a scarcity of energy, is responsible
for U.S. energy insecurity.
watch a video presentation of the report’s central findings, click
here.http://www.canadafreepress.com...
Ken Fletcher, Governor LaPage and now the Maine PUC are absolutely right.
Renewable mandate manipulation , and the attempted subversion of Maine Energy Law which demands separation of generation from transmission authority for the concept of competition in the energy arena for Mainers,has been under attack for years now.
It is under attack by DE Shaw's scoundrel, well attached First Wind , (also known as Enron's bastard son) who would do nothing but make electricity more expensive for Maine's ratepayers.
Wind toys only reward Maine's power elite , who subsidy suck on the teat of Obama's failed subsidization of renewable energy scams, such as Solyndra.
Well done Maine PUC!
Well done Maine businesses involved, if nothing else so that your energy and financial survival may be preserved in this electrically high cost state..
To Kurt Adams et al , Angus King and son, and other subsidy suckers, “if you can't make it there, you can't it make it anywhere”. Your failed IPO on Wall Street, of the scoundrel First Wind LLC shell game by DE Shaw ,can only scam so far.
They may have been able to shove LD-2283 down a naive legislatures throat in 2008 with a dim bulb governor lighting the way named Baldacci, but this attempted underhanded energy coup is a bit too far for even some in power positions in Maine.
Finally , an agency of Maine, the PUC, (the “P” standing for public), does its job.
KUDOS to you, Maine PUC.
The reality is the Baldacci administration was either incompetent, naive, drunk on green Koo-aid or heavily involved in cronyism to get involved with First Wind-- and because of this, this lunacy has pervaded our state.
We elected a new administration and a new legislature to stop this wastefulness and to put the people first.
I hope the LePage administration really helps to start to control Maine's high ELECTRICAL RATES!
Now let us hope the rest of the legislature does their job concerning the reigning- in of this and other scoundrel , subsidy sucking wind companies , such as First Wind , (Enron's Bastard Son).
Particularly as it applies to such as unsavory wind self-servers such as Angus King and son,Rep. Hinck and Fitts of Energy Utilities Tech. Commission,Kurt Adams and the other Wind Snake-Oil salesmem and wind scamming companies such as First Wind, and now the DEP of Maine( who refuse to do their mandated legal do process in this area).
They say the below , and laugh at the word.....
"Ethics, We Don't Need No Stinkin Ethics" HA !!!!!!
Defying the laws of thermodynamics is the theme of renewables, along with the religious fervor of the climate computerized theories that defy reality.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.
How does wind power meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
Any electric utility must meet the following, well known in the industry to survive.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Please renewable non-scientific zealots, address the above, as applied to wind, or even solar for that matter.
No sir, pipe dreams and religious fervor and snake oil salesmen as they realte to non-dense sources cannot do any of it.
Dense sources of electron production support modernity: the others will DRIVE US BANKRUPT!
Sorry, the consumer can't and won't buy the bull presented by religous global warming brain dead non-scientific zealots.
Perhaps a 50 cent/kwh charge is needed in Maine to wake up the populace and some brain dead politicians.
By then however, all business will have vacated the state, and for good reason.
Mr. Voorhees and NRCM in Lincoln in 2009, presented the community with a question and answer period.
All questions by the citizens were pre-screened.
Undesireable questions were eliminated.
Sieg NRCM!
NRCM has done to Lincoln what the SS did to its victims in eastern Europe.
NRCM and "Mr Voorhees", "The Green SS" ,is to be trusted in the same manner.
Protect yourselves good citizens of Peru.
Ordinance them out of your lives, before you are ruined like the Lincoln Lakes region!
Home rule in Maine is superior to any green dream of NRCM's perverted doctrine of global warming hysteria. This hysteria is also being shown to be a farce.
Peru should ordinance out wind scamming from its borders, and tell Voorhees to take his scam to another state. He has no authority, nor science, to say wind is a "solution " to anything.All her can do with the grren dream of his is attempt to pad NRCM's financial lock box and his meager greenwashed salary.
Ordinance them out Peru, do your civic duty, protect your citizens from infra-sound and the area from environmental devastation.
In Lincoln, (where he had never visited nor explored), he declared the area with pristine lakes and ridges to be unimportant and sacrificial to the cause. Indeed, it in now a mess.
Ordinance them out, or face the same fate.
Kibby I and II facts:
The above 132 MW wind turbine facility, capital cost $330 million, is owned by TransCanada and was built, after a lot of destruction, on one of the most beautiful ridge lines in Maine. TransCanada and Vestas the claimed that the capacity factor would be 0.32, or greater. It was placed in service on 10/31/2009.
Its FERC designation is Trans Canadian Wind Development, Inc. in case you want to look up the below data.
In 2009 and 2010, the facility had a lot of startup problems and its energy production was negligible.
In 2011, it had a capacity factor of 22.5% for the first 9 months.
For the 3rd quarter of 2011, it was 14.42%. Monthly capacity factors were as follows:
July 18.48%
Aug 12.31%
Sept 12.41%
Why are the CFs so low?
Winds on ridge lines have highly-irregular velocities AND directions. This does not show up when one does wind velocity testing for feasibility, but when rotors are 373 feet in diameter, one part of a rotor will likely see a different wind velocity AND direction from another part. This leads to highly inefficient energy production and CFs. Wind vendors are very familiar with this, but do not mention it. However, all is explained in this article. I recommend the VT-DPS and House Environment and Energy Committee, and all others, finally read this article, before "leading" Vermont into an expensive energy la-la-land. http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/61309/lowell-mountain-wind-tu...
Installed capacity, MW: 1035.5 in 2008; 1,274 in 2009: 1,274 in 2009; 1,348 in 2010
Production, MWh: 1,282,325 in 2008; 2,108,500 in 2009, 2,532,800 in 2010
Capacity factors: 14.1% in 2008; 18.9% in 2009; 22.7% in 2010
Because no wind turbines were added during 2010, the 22.7% capacity factor of 2010 is the best proof of the lack of performance of the New York State wind turbine facilities.
This reality is not unique to Maine, Bolton Valley and NY State. It has replicated itself in The Netherlands, Denmark, England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, etc. The production is invariably less than promised. Add this to the fact that the CO2 emissions reduction is much less than claimed, as shown in below articles, makes further investments in wind energy an extremely dubious and expensive
proposition.
No more local ordinances are allowed by state decree
It has been declared that we are under central federal control, and wind turbines have been declared the answer to all of our problems.
States rights and local control are subordinant to the wind lobby and AWEA.
Self -serving interests (such as Angus King and son, Independence Wind and First Wind for example) and crony captialism now rules( as long as the public does not break into open revolt in the streets).
DEP/LURC are pupits of corporate citizens, and representative government has ended for the affected.
Does this sound surreal?
It should not, it is happening Right Now in the Plantation of Maine.
Article One of Maine State Constitution Shall not be subverted!
It is only because of a sleeping citizenry that the stooges of Augusta attempt to centrally control. Let's face is, how many of them(politicians) read and understand Article one and the concept of home rule.(Yes, get it out and read it)!
Indeed in Maine , the Supreme court is affected more by politics than that which they are sworn to uphold it would seem.
They stand inferior to legislative dictates on the wind issue it would appear from past court tests brought by citizens (see Foll v DEP)
This is most unfortunate.
Only by having the citizens of each community raise hell in support of their constitutional rights opposing wind will this travesty called LD-2283(The Wind Law, past while the legislature slept) be expunged or controlled to prevent damage to the health and well being of Mainers.
But Mainers must seize their constitutional rights here.
Jon Hinck, Alex Cornell du Houx and Stacey Fitts - three of the 12 members (25%) of the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
The following is the definition of Conflict of Interest from the Maine Government website:
"The Legislative Ethics Law lists several situations involving a conflict of interest. These include situations in which a Legislator or a member of the Legislator’s immediate family has a unique and distinct interest in legislation, or accepts or engages in employment that could impair the Legislator’s judgment. In some cases, a conflict can exist if the employer or client of a Legislator — or another person or organization in close economic association with the Legislator — has a direct financial interest in legislation."
Jon Hinck is married to Juliet Browne who is a lawyer and partner at Verill Dana whose main practice deals with the defense of wind power companies .She has been extremely busy in the past few years representing wind developers on the local level, before Maine DEP ,and LURC and defending the companies in numerous appeals and lawsuits . She has represented First Wind, TransCanada and Independence Wind and is quite possibly the wind industry’s leading attorney in Maine.
Alex Cornell du Houx, an avid supporter of wind power, is the outreach coordinator of the Truman National Security Project. This organization states a deep philosophical belief that climate change is a national security threat. On that subject one of their position papers includes the following statement concerning the threat of climate change to our country’s national security, "Even if you do not have complete information, you still need to take action! Waiting for 100% certainty during a crisis can be disastrous." That sounds awfully like, “Shoot first then ask questions “. A sister organization of the Truman National Security Project is Operation Free, where Mr. Du Houx serves as Campaign Director. Operation Free lists as its first core motivational principal “get America running on clean energy”. In fact, the organization’s logo prominently features industrial wind turbines.
Stacey Fitts, co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on
Energy, Utilities and Technology, works for Kleinschmidt Associates, an engineering, licensing, environmental service firm offering specialized technical services to the renewable industry. Attached to this email is some information regarding that firm. Kleinschmidt’s wind focus is primarily off -shore wind power, but the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee makes decisions on offshore wind and decisions made for offshore wind will benefit onshore, such as anything that helps along large transmission projects. Co-Chair Fitts was quoted in the February 7, 2011 Sun-Journal as saying "Everyone wants to find the conflict, the snake in the grass. But every legislator in the building is conflicted if you were to take that same standard and apply it to everyone else. It’s the nature of being part-time legislators."
But what happens when the legislator’s employer actively approves of its employee’s work as a legislator and perhaps encourages such legislative endeavors to exceed simple part-time work? As can be seen above, Kleinschmidt’s website brazenly boasts, “we have been very active in the development of state regulations in Maine where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force.
This is absurd, and this should be investigated.
LaPage should force all the above to RECUSE on this issue.
SEE THIS from Kleinscmidt's Web site(2009), with Fitts being the engineer in question.
"and we have been very active in the
development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force."
and this:
"Kleinschmidt is one of the United States' leading hydropower
engineering and licensing firms and has designed and licensed
numerous hydroelectric projects throughout the country. In
addition to hydroelectric power, Kleinschmidt is involved in
other aspects of the energy industry and has performed a
number of investigations related to the development of other
renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, and
biomass.
EUT Co-chair Fitts, once again undermining the Governor, talks about how letting Canadian hydro qualify for renewables goals would hurt Maine's budding wind industry.
Would this be a conflict, i.e., the co-chair of EUT fighting foreign hydro because it may compete with the domestic hydro (as well as wind) that is his employer's specialty?
Governor LaPage, this wreaks.
Don't let this self-serving "Kleinschmidt Shill" hurt all the citizens and businesses of Maine by increasing our electric costs more!!
kill more businesses and make Maine less desireable to them as well .
Maine stays poor because of self-serving politicians and crony capitalism from the likes of Hinck, Fitts, K. Adams , Angus King and others.
Those elected self-servers should be openly chastised, investigated and removed ,to preserve our state.
RECUSE HIMSELF from any discussions on Hydro Power or Wind here for that matter.
This is absurd, and this should be investigated.
LaPage should force him to RECUSE on this issue.
SEE THIS from Kleinscmidt's Web site(2009), with Fitts being the engineer in question.
"and we have been very active in the
development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force."
and this:
"Kleinschmidt is one of the United States' leading hydropower
engineering and licensing firms and has designed and licensed
numerous hydroelectric projects throughout the country. In
addition to hydroelectric power, Kleinschmidt is involved in
other aspects of the energy industry and has performed a
number of investigations related to the development of other
renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, and
biomass.
EUT Co-chair Fitts, once again undermining the Governor, talks about how letting Canadian hydro qualify for renewables goals would hurt Maine's budding wind industry.
Would this be a conflict, i.e., the co-chair of EUT fighting foreign hydro because it may compete with the domestic hydro (as well as wind) that is his employer's specialty?
Governor LaPage, this wreaks.
Don't let this self-serving "Kleinschmidt Shill" hurt all the citizens and businesses of Maine by increasing our electric costs more!!
Your theme of defying the laws of thermodynamics here, along your youthful religious fervor of the climate computerized theories that defy reality are stunning.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.
Have you ever heard of the two laws above?
How does wind trickle meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
For your edification, any electric utility must meet the following, well known facts to survive.
Please ask your electrical engineering student friends you might have the below, or , do some research please Patricia.
Answer the below please concerning your savior offshore , or onshore wind for that matter.
Those who can do math know the following.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Patricia, please address the above.
No my dear, your pipe dream and religious fervor and snake oil wind beliefs herein cannot do any of it.
Your belief in it is pure pure BUNK and politicized nonsense to any scientist or thinking individual who can read and understand the first two laws of thermodynamics.
Dense sources of electron production support modernity.
Or perhaps you can occupy Wall Street and live w/o electricity.
Sorry, the consumer can't and won't buy the bull presented here.
30 cents a KW/h generation, for a fickle trickle of expensive non-dense sources of electricity will make your generation paupers, with no jobs.
Enjoy it if you wish, or do the basic math or understand the physics of power generation, and buy gas or hydro for Maine., or perhaps (lordy) drill offshore and really create thousands of jobs for Mainers.
The Peru Wind Developers are neither virtuous nor wise. The Wind Developers like Angus King and son and First Wind and others are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
The Peru developer and his subsidy sucking wind associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexes to the public. The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more this Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.It is simple,
The first question any citizen must ask of the "officials is",
1."What is in it for you Mr/Mrs selectman?", have you been personally approached with a monetary offer by the wind company.
2.Have there been any "secret meeitng with the wind company?".
3.A full declaration must be made of the land owners contacts with the wind company and any lease arrangements in progress or contemplated.
There is no trust to be extended to these companies, they have already a long history of deceptive tactics, if not illegal tactics in Maine, with no ethics laws governing their actions.
4. Full transparancy must be practiced. They will try to influence any proceedings, be aware of that from the onset.
What is highlighted in the film is the covert way that wind developers operate. Targetting elected officials with large tracts of land,ignoring the majority of people who will have to live in the shadows of turbines owned by utility companies and billionaire investors.
Making false claims about the impacts that wind development will have on established land uses, future development and the property values of the area.
Intensionally pitting neighbor against neighbor. What they are doing is comparable to scattering a handful of twenty dollar bills in a crowd of people at city hall while their associates are are across the street robbing the bank".
When put to an honest democratic vote by an informed electorate, WIND Scoundrels like First Wind and those that succumb to their bribery, will always lose.
Residents under constitutional home rule of Maine have superior rights to those self serving, subsidy sucking property owners who now are upset they can't be welfare recipients to the federal buck and have lost a civic fight, under the law.
Citizens have the rights, indeed the responsibility to protect our area, health, and pocket books.
The only protection from scoundrels and liars and deceivers is an informed and active electorate.
You don't like it , Tough.
Wind companies and those who they bribe know that communities all over Maine are rising up and protecting themselves from the wind scoundrels, like First Wind and their community destructive tactics.
The game is up
Three citizen votes, three loses for the wind scoundrels.
Give it a try the forth time, or try to unorganize Rumford perhaps into a medieval fiefdom perhaps, and you may win, but not under Maine State constitutional law.
That to might be illegal don't you think?
There are communities that can be bought,(like the dirty political and underhanded town of Lincoln, also known as Haynes-town, where First Wind illegally got a project in ).
It is wonderful that Rumford citizens have educated themselves and put a stop to the illegalities of wind scoundrels, by seizing their home rule powers.
As far as the land owning self serving abusers I say, shut off your land, close the gates, and citizens will flip the bird to you!
It will be well deserved!
Just remember have the self-serving land owners pay their land taxes, without our money!
Come on Sun Journal, Pat Defilipp is the project manager for Reed and Reed, putting up Wind Turbines for First Wind and others all over Maine!
Do you think there should be a disclaimer here?
Duh, is THIS AN AD FOR THEM, and DID YOU get paid for it?
Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
The Associatred Wind Developers like Matt Damon, Angus King and son and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Matt Damon and his subsidy sucking wind Associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
"The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."
Wind is proven to be a subsidy farce.
Hello Solyndra!
All it does is provide greenbacks to the scoundrel wind elite, off the backs of the many.
The Associatred Wind Developers like Matt Damon, Angus King and son and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Matt Damon and his subsidy sucking wind Associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen!
He is neither virtuous nor wise.
The wind developers like Angus King and son and First Wind, are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you they will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
It is long overdue for the Wind Industry to be forced to run the real numbers and utilize real physics.
The only one who stands to gain anything seems to be the wind shills.
So here is the basic math if you are not math challenged. We don’t get what we pay for , ever , with the renewable scam.
Now , if you really want to subsidize, it (subsidization) must be looked at on a PER-UNIT of OUPUT Basis.
Renewable suck in the money for next to nothing in return.
In 2007, natural gas fired electricity got just .$25 per megawatt hour federal subsidization and natural gas produced more than 900 million megawatt hours of electricity on demand , base load 24/7/365 days a year! (EIA official stats).
In 2007,wind produced 31 million MW-hrs! (EIA data), at $23.37 subsidized per MW-hr !
The wind power sector therefore got 93 times as much in federal subsidies as natural gas , even though the natural gas sector produced 28 times more electricity than wind, of high value base load!
Remember gas gets .$25 (25 cents)mW-hr.Wind got $23.37 MW-hr subsidization
Gas generated 900 million MW-hrs! Gas was subsidized 25 cents ($.25) per MW hr.
Feckless wind generated 31 million Mg-watt hours! Subsidized $23.37 per MW-hr!
And also remember, natural gas was available 24/7/365, wind has no base load capacity. Wind is highly intermittent and was not available on demand and has no base load capacity.
(This is all official Energy Information Administration Data )
WE CAN’T AFFORD THE WIND FARCE ANY LONGER! Business cannot afford power at over double the price, sometimes when the wind blows!
Wind is intermittent , non –base load power. YOU NEVER GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL about the electrons Wind produces, other than the fact they are very costly!
Gas, Hydro, other high density sources of electrons are the only way to go.
And the new domestic shale gas reserves of 2500 trillion cubic feet will last this country a very long time!
Let’s be adults here and do the right thing concerning energy, not fad following global warming children.
The wind power industry does not cite any body of empirical evidence that wind power:
- reduces emissions
- reduces reliance on imports of fossil fuels
- enhances “energy independence”
- can be easily integrated into a grid system
- reduces electricity costs
Their claims of performance or benefits are based upon theoretical concepts which have failed to materialize into actual practice over more than two decades worldwide.
- Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
- In 1985 were only 9 % higher than the US average.
- In 1990, 20% higher.
- In 1995, 49% higher.
- In 2000, 52% higher.
- In 2007, 59% higher than US average.
Today we remain approximately 60% more expensive than the rest of the country.
Depending upon the category of customer, Maine’s electric rates range from #9 to #6 most expensive in the US. Many states (like Iowa) pay rates two and a half times lower than ours. If we ever do need more electricity in Maine, rather than wind, there are numerous ways to get more power which have far less impact and far greater benefit to our economy and environment.
This disparity in our electric bills is an annual penalty on Maine businesses and consumers of $700 million, equivalent to 25% of our state tax collections.
At about three million dollars per MW for wind projects complete with remote transmission connections, the capital costs for installing a wind generating facility are around three times more expensive than for conventional generating plants. For instance, a typical natural gas facility would incur capital costs of about one million dollars per MW.
The mid-sized 540 MW CalPine plant in Westbrook is an example of how Maine could generate 675 MW of electricity in one small industrial park rather than sprawling wind turbines over 360 miles of pristine and remote ridges. The fuel for the wind turbines is free, but all other aspects of windpower, including functional lifespan, are far more costly.
A recent power purchasing agreement between a Massachusetts utility and a wind power company will increase customers’ rates by an average $1.59 per month. That utility has 7 times the number of customers that our utility, Central Maine Power Company has, and that single contract calls for the utility to purchase merely half the power from one wind farm. This alarming rate impact from a tiny addition of purchased power shows the potential devastating impact of widespread wind purchases.
The Science of Wind Facts concludes with a simple but poignant excerpt from John Droz: Wind Power – How We Got Here. Droz reminds us of how wind power fails almost every historical test for viability in grid-scale electricity generation:IT FAILS ALL THE BELOW!
The first practical use of electricity, in the late 1800s, is generally attributed to Thomas Edison (a founder of General Electric). Of course there were actually dozens of people who contributed to making commercial electricity a reality. And there were a LOT of formidable hurdles to overcome. One of the initial primary issues was: where was this electricity going to come from? For the first hundred years or so, there were six over-riding concerns about commercial electricity generators:
1 - could they provide large amounts of electricity?
2 - could they provide reliable and predictable electricity?
3 - could they provide dispatchable 1 electricity?
4 - could they service one or more of the grid demand elements 2?
5 - could their facility be compact 3?
6 - could they provide economical electricity?
1 Dispatchable means a source can generate higher or lower amounts of power on-demand,
1.NO, 2.No 3.No 4. NO 5.No 6.NO
Wind developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Our compilation of Wind Facts concludes with a simple but poignant excerpt from John Droz: Wind Power – How We Got Here. Droz reminds us of how wind power fails almost every historical test for viability in grid-scale electricity generation:
The first practical use of electricity, in the late 1800s, is generally attributed to Thomas Edison (a founder of General Electric). Of course there were actually dozens of people who contributed to making commercial electricity a reality. And there were a LOT of formidable hurdles to overcome. One of the initial primary issues was: where was this electricity going to come from? For the first hundred years or so, there were six over-riding concerns about commercial electricity generators:
1 - could they provide large amounts of electricity?
2 - could they provide reliable and predictable electricity?
3 - could they provide dispatchable 1 electricity?
4 - could they service one or more of the grid demand elements 2?
5 - could their facility be compact 3?
6 - could they provide economical electricity?
1 Dispatchable means a source can generate higher or lower amounts of power on-demand,
- In 1985 were only 9 % higher than the US average.
- In 1990, 20% higher.
- In 1995, 49% higher.
- In 2000, 52% higher.
- In 2007, 59% higher than US average.
Today we remain approximately 60% more expensive than the rest of the country.
Depending upon the category of customer, Maine’s electric rates range from #9 to #6 most expensive in the US. Many states (like Iowa) pay rates two and a half times lower than ours. If we ever do need more electricity in Maine, rather than wind, there are numerous ways to get more power which have far less impact and far greater benefit to our economy and environment.
This disparity in our electric bills is an annual penalty on Maine businesses and consumers of $700 million, equivalent to 25% of our state tax collections.
At about three million dollars per MW for wind projects complete with remote transmission connections, the capital costs for installing a wind generating facility are around three times more expensive than for conventional generating plants. For instance, a typical natural gas facility would incur capital costs of about one million dollars per MW.
The mid-sized 540 MW CalPine plant in Westbrook is an example of how Maine could generate 675 MW of electricity in one small industrial park rather than sprawling wind turbines over 360 miles of pristine and remote ridges. The fuel for the wind turbines is free, but all other aspects of windpower, including functional lifespan, are far more costly.
A recent power purchasing agreement between a Massachusetts utility and a wind power company will increase customers’ rates by an average $1.59 per month. That utility has 7 times the number of customers that our utility, Central Maine Power Company has, and that single contract calls for the utility to purchase merely half the power from one wind farm. This alarming rate impact from a tiny addition of purchased power shows the potential devastating impact of widespread wind purchases.
Maine has over 4200 megawatts of electric generating capacity, yet load (need) is only 1000 to 1500 MW. Maine is a net exporter of electricity. Our New England grid has over 30,000 MW of electric generating capacity. Average load is about 16,000 MW during the day, dropping to about 11,000 MW at night. Peak load has never exceeded 30,000 MW.
At 30% and escalating to 40%, Maine’s Renewable (electricity) Portfolio Standard is the highest in the nation.
Maine’s electric generation mix is already very green and it does not rely on imports from overseas. Over 90% of Maine’s generation is from biomass, hydro, and clean natural gas. By contrast, the state of Iowa gets over three quarters of its electricity from coal plants.
Given projections, there is no need for massive buildup of new electricity generation. The primary driver of electricity usage is population growth.
According to the census Bureau, Maine's population is projected to be only 4% higher in 2030.
New England is only projected at 6% and the Middle Atlantic Region is at 2.4%.
The wind power industry does not cite any body of empirical evidence that wind power:
- reduces emissions
- reduces reliance on imports of fossil fuels
- enhances “energy independence”
- can be easily integrated into a grid system
- reduces electricity costs
Their claims of performance or benefits are based upon theoretical concepts which have failed to materialize into actual practice over more than two decades worldwide.
- Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
Never mind that in 2010, oil and natural gas provided nearly 200 times as much energy to the U.S. economy as all solar and wind energy production combined. Never mind that the Energy Information Administration recently estimated that wind-generated electricity costs about 50% more than that produced by natural gas-fired generators while solar-generated electricity costs at least 200% more.
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Wind Snake Oil Salesmen.
They are neither virtuous nor wise.
Wind developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Remember this, there is no Ethics when dealing with Wind Scoundrels and Liars.
Have an ethics code as a precondition with all selectmen and developers.
Follow this :
1. Do you have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
The Freedom of Inmformation Act has started to expose the heinous process now underway in Sumner. You do know of course that some citizens know the game. Listen to them, listen to others who have come before you, and are now sorry they could not or did not act more forcefully.
FOIA precipitated the response of the Selectmen.
The only reason to cause panic with FOIA is if there is something to hide,
AS THERE ALWAYS IS, with Wind Scoundrel Companies and the uncivil dealings pursued in towns throughout Maine concerning wind scamming, and subsidy sucking.
Fact: Citizens retained a lawyer to serve FOIA on the town concerning its dealings with Eolian.
the procfess has begun, but now, citizens know the game too!
Ordinance Up , before it is too late .
Vermin always spread rapidly.
Now properties are for sale with no buyers in Lincoln, people are aghast at the project. It is too late for the fools in Lincoln, don't add to the fools of Sumner!
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of "Wind developers"in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
The only reason to cause panic with FOIA is if there is something to hide,
AS THERE ALWAYS IS, with Wind Scoundrel Companies and the uncivil dealings pursued in towns throughout Maine concering wind scamming, and subsidy sucking.
Fact: Citizens retained a lawyer to serve FOIA on the town concerning its dealings with Eolian.
Let the fun begin, but now, citizens know the game too!
Ordinance Up , before it is too late .
Vermin always spread rapidly.
Take notice.
Many citizens now know the game, and will not allow the selectmen to benefit, or be coerced, bribed or collude any longer.
The pressure is up.
Break home rule and the constitution of Maine, as encouraged by the likes of Enronesque First Wind, and you better resign!
Transparent process is a must, and we know that it is not being followed , as encouraged by LD-2283.
Ordinance this slime out of Maine.
Divisive, you bet.
And citizens now know the game.
It will get worse.
The Wind Liars and self-servers should take heed.
It will only get stronger!
It is not only the environmental issue ,
It is citizen rights over corporate collusion , greed and lies!
And what is Civil Disobedience, "is it planned" the attorney asked foolishly: "Is Breathing Planned" I would respond.
Civil Disobedience is :
n.
Refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is also an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery
IT IS NECESSARY, from its very definition.
Earth First follows this high calling to change injustice .
Win or lose , they only have won in exposing the lies of Wind Scamming in Maine.
Since the laws have been written of, by , and for the wind industry,
"a little bit rebellion now and then is a good thing"(Jefferson).
As far as many are concerned , Earth First are True Patriots!
The citizens will defeat it again even tho a perverted process will be tried again!
Honor their decision now!
The citizens have spoken twice!
Knowledge is Power. Citizens know the game now, and more are learning every day!
Educating the population will put an end to the self-servers of Rumford and scoundrels of First Wind.
an anonymous source says:
"I went to the OCEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE yesterday and the vendor area was plastered with posters that a vendor was a supporter of industrial wind farms. The wind industry had a large booth and presence….very intimidating indeed!
Lots of money at stake ….subsidies are driving the entire thing. I had one ‘consultant’ brag about how they ‘bribed’ fisherman off of cape cod, err. ‘Involve them’; in doing crab counts--$2 for return of a tagged crab, etc.; and other survey chores. After the payoff, the opposition of the fisherman withered away."
First Wind is very good at it, and to date (notice to date), has not gotten caught in Maine.
Have an ethics code as a precondition with all selectmen and developers.
Follow this :
1. Do you have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the privileged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
If their dog defecates on your lawn, it IS your business. If the dogs defecate on everyones lawns, it is the all the citizens business.
Wind Industrial Complexes are everyones business!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afghanistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also remember from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the privileged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
If their dog defecates on your lawn, it IS your business. If the dogs defecate on everyones lawns, it is the all the citizens business.
Wind Industrial Complexes are everyones business!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afghanistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also remember from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the priveleged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afganistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also rememeber from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
and YES Mr. Fallon, and they will do it again!
Liars and self-servers should beware in Rumford now.
It will only get stronger!
It is not the environmntal issue at all really,
It is citizen rights over corporate collusion , greed and lies!
You have seized your Destiny from First Wind scoundrels and self-servers in your community.
You have EXPOSED the Bribed!Now kick out the culprits!
Now Ordinance Them Out!
Contact Citizens Task Force and CELDF.org
Develop a Civil Disobedience Environmental Ordinance, or just lock arms and kick them out, it is your town, not theirs !
Contact any others who can help you protect your lives and property from these scam artists.
Congratulations on Seizing your Destiny!
The defeat in Lincoln and elsewhere because of the perverted process used by First Wind should never happen again.
You have saved the process.Lincoln never had a chance, the cancer was too deep, but your'e wise vote has recognized the disease!
NOW CUT IT OUT TOTALLY!
You have given hope to citizens in seizing their rights!
1. Do you (Mr. Fallon) have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
3. Mr Fallon, should selectmen declare that they follow the ethics code posted in your belief, and if not, why not?
4. Do selectmen take an oath in Rumford upon gaining office, and to whom is it?
I suggest you get more involved in getting more facts and help stop the farce that is occurring in Rumford with First Wind.
We went through this in Lincoln, and they had a ten year secret head start here.They never let us vote here, because of the lies and secret dealings with inside town players and financial self-servers were too well seated. THey love perverting your town process; that is what they do for a living!
Indeed, the Lincoln project is in a rural residential zone , non-rezoned as required by law. Legal actions remain fully open here and in Maine. Citizens are aghast at the damage to the lakes , hills and area by this scoundrel company here .
Legal actions are in the works , and noise and real estate damage issues remain.
by secret dealings ......The AG of the state needs to act before you go further.
Has the below been part of the process in Rumford?
Has the minimum of 1 through 6 below been met in Rumford?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
This REWRITE is a Travesty, a PRO-WIND REWRITE by and for scoundrels ans self-serving interests!
If Citizens of Rumford accept this piece of trash, you get what you deserve!
In Lincoln, as hjas probably been done already in Rumford, the slect folks were influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to.
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed and ethics code against the underhanded dealing, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First Wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you must ordinance them out!
THIS TRASH REWRITE IS PRO FIRST WIND ONLY!
REJECT IT TOMORROW, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.Visit Lincoln.
Don't be fools.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
Haddock never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing.
REJECT THIS SINISTER LIE OF A REWRITE!
THEY ARE PLAYING YOU FOR IDIOTS!
Dense Energy Research Will always Win, Sorry, that is Thermodynamics!
from
Wall Street Journal 6/10/2011
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s huge new oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for domestic energy production, but it's even better news as a sign that last year's panic over the BP spill won't continue to cripple American offshore oil exploration. Every so often, reality triumphs over politics.
Exxon had been ready to drill on the site last year before the Obama Administration shut down all deepwater drilling in the wake of the BP spill. The Interior Department is still issuing very few permits, only 15 for new wells since it lifted its moratorium in October, but Exxon received one of them and struck black gold at 7,000 feet below sea level and some 230 miles at sea.
That's nearly 3,000 feet deeper than BP's Macondo well and shows how technology and innovation have opened up oil and gas resources that were impossible to detect, much less reach and develop, only a few years ago. Exxon estimates the field contains some 700 million barrels of oil equivalent, one of the largest finds of the last decade.
The great energy irony of recent years is that governments have thrown hundreds of billions of dollars at wind, solar, ethanol and other alternative fuels, yet the major breakthroughs have taken place in the traditional oil and natural gas business. Hydraulic fracturing in shale, horizontal drilling and new seismic techniques are only the best known examples.
Private companies must innovate to survive, and they have the profit incentive to do so, while government cash is usually steered to politically favored companies that may or may not know what they're doing. If you live off federal grants, you need to work the corridors of power more than the technology. Federal grants for cellulosic ethanol are rife with political earmarks, for example. This is why these columns have argued that the political fad of alternative energy has misallocated scarce capital when the economy can least afford it.
The risk of oil spills has not vanished. But one lesson of the BP debacle is that better management and practices could have prevented it. The Obama Administration is making it harder to obtain permits, which will eliminate all but the biggest companies from deepwater drilling and (unfortunately) raise the cost of production.
Far more important for safety is the effort that the oil industry is taking to contain future deepwater spills. ConocoPhillips, Exxon, Shell and Chevron have led an effort, since joined by other companies, to form the Marine Well Containment Co. to build a spill containment system that will be permanently placed in the Gulf starting next year.
The companies are attempting to apply the lessons from the BP fiasco, and their expectation is that the system would be able to handle a blowout as if it were a contained well at depths of up to 10,000 feet. The companies have committed $1 billion to the project, and we're told the cost could reach $1.5 billion. If you believe Big Oil companies are inherently evil, you'll think this is one more confidence trick. But no rational company or CEO wants to endure the reputational damage that accompanied the BP spill.
The Exxon discovery is a display of the animal spirits that still live in the U.S. energy industry, notwithstanding the political efforts to stifle them. As much as Washington tries, the U.S. economy is hard to keep down.
as for Renewables...well , try again in 100 years with the Blowtoys!
It is long overdue for the Wind Industry to be forced to run the real numbers and utilize real physics.
The only one who stands to gain anything seems to be the wind shills.
So here is the basic math if you are not math challenged. We don’t get what we pay for , ever , with the renewable scam.
Now , if you really want to subsidize, it (subsidization) must be looked at on a PER-UNIT of OUPUT Basis.
Renewable suck in the money for next to nothing in return.
In 2007, natural gas fired electricity got just .$25 per megawatt hour federal subsidization and natural gas produced more than 900 million megawatt hours of electricity on demand , base load 24/7/365 days a year! (EIA official stats).
In 2007,wind produced 31 million MW-hrs! (EIA data), at $23.37 subsidized per MW-hr !
The wind power sector therefore got 93 times as much in federal subsidies as natural gas , even though the natural gas sector produced 28 times more electricity than wind, of high value base load!
Remember gas gets .$25 (25 cents)mW-hr.Wind got $23.37 MW-hr subsidization
Gas generated 900 million MW-hrs! Gas was subsidized 25 cents ($.25) per MW hr.
Feckless wind generated 31 million Mg-watt hours! Subsidized $23.37 per MW-hr!
And also remember, natural gas was available 24/7/365, wind has no base load capacity. Wind is highly intermittent and was not available on demand and has no base load capacity.
(This is all official Energy Information Administration Data )
WE CAN’T AFFORD THE WIND FARCE ANY LONGER! Business cannot afford power at over double the price, sometimes when the wind blows!
Wind is intermittent , non –base load power. YOU NEVER GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL about the electrons Wind produces, other than the fact they are very costly!
Gas, Hydro, other high density sources of electrons are the only way to go.
And the new domestic shale gas reserves of 2500 trillion cubic feet will last this country a very long time!
Let’s be adults here and do the right thing concerning energy, not fad following global warming children.
LePage has done his homework. And he actually represents rate and taxpayers interests'--how refreshing!
MORNING ROUNDUP: Dominion Will Not Choose Offshore Wind Until Price Drops
Wed, May 11, 2011 http://offshorewindwire.com/20...
March 11, 2011; Source Offshore Wind Biz: Headline:
KENTISH Flats operator Vattenfall has warned that the offshore wind farm industry must reduce its costs or risk “dying out.” http://www.offshorewind.biz/20...
Constellation Opposes Offshore Wind Power Mandates
March 7, 2011 2:40 PM
BALTIMORE (AP) — Constellation Energy says requiring utilities to buy offshore wind power will cost customers billions at the expense of more cost-effective clean-energy alternatives. http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/...
Cape Wind cost:
"Global Marine Energy Lessons Learned:Offshore Cable Installation"September 2010"Lesson: Offshore Wind is Too Expensive!" (page 20) http://www.globalmarine-energy...
The Cape Wind NGrid D.P.U. approved contract assumes 24.4 cents per kWh is commercially reasonable on behalf of Massachusetts’ residents, employers, municipalities, commercial and industrial customers in the 170 communities served by National Grid. (3.)
'It Is Easy to Be Green — When SomeoneElse Pays the Bill'
Jonathan A. Lesser is founder and president of Continental Economics Inc.
Jonathan A. Lesser, Ph.D. President
“…The initial purchase price under the contract was set at $207per megawatt-hour in 2013, increasing 3.5 percent each year.Thus, by the end of the contract, the price would be just under35 cents per kilowatt-hour. However, National Grid’s ratepayerswould pay an even higher price because the Green CommunitiesAct also includes a 4 percent “adder” that accrues to the utilitysigning the long-term contract, raising the price paid by ratepayersto $215 per MWh. The contract also included provisions toincrease the price in the event that Cape Wind did not qualify foreither the federal investment tax credit or the federal productiontax credit. Without either of those, the initial price would increaseto $235 per MWh and, adding in the 4 percent adder, ratepayerswould pay $244 per MWh.”
Continue reading: http://www.cato.org/pubs/regul... The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions
The media remain conspicuously silent about the real price we pay for wind energy, says Christopher Booker.
In all the publicity given to the opening of "the world's largest wind farm" off the Kent coast last week, by far the most important and shocking aspect of this vast project was completely overlooked. Over the coming years we will be giving the wind farm's Swedish owners a total of £1.2 billion in subsidies. That same sum, invested now in a single nuclear power station, could yield a staggering 13 times more electricity, with much greater reliability. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com...
This is not about public interest served by reliable and affordable energy. This is about public subsidies and turf courted
We have plenty of Hydro and other competitive sources than we need NOW!
Why is the U.S. going Broke though?
Why Does Maine stay poor?
This is a great example why. Wind Power in Maine.
We subsized First Wind at high levels, upwards of 70 percent, WITH OUR U.S. DOLLARS.
They build projects with our federal taxes , "tax incremental funding" dumb towns give them more local tax money and give away their municipal taxes for multimilion dollar projects, so First Wind can get more tax breaks with our dollars.
The towns smile because they get a new fire engine from the deal. The taxes of the town go up, because of lost tax base.
First Wind buys Chinese Turbines with our U.S. dollars, and then spin the company and development dollar to Canadian companies (or Spanish in the case of CMP) as we then PAY for THE POWER LINES to deliver next to no power, feckless power out of state.
Some temporary construction jobs are created, and we call it job growth in MAINE!
I guess this state even dumber than it is desperate.
We Mainers THEN PAY THE HIGHER electric RATES for power AGAIN, AND WE ALLOW BREACHING MAINE LAW with this combination of a generator and a transmission company (Bangor Hydro), and rates go up again FOR MAINERS!
But we do get the wind sprawl and financial and ecologic damage, and the sole of the state is destroyed. Vacationland dies a slow death to the wind.
Not only are WE BROKE FROM THIS ENRON SCAM, WE ARE DUMB TO PERMIT IT to continue!
NOTE, First Wind now has more projects in Maine (and growing), than ANY state in New England.
ARE WE THE DUMBEST state in New England, or the most desperate?
You answer please.
Yes , aren't renewables great, and needed?
Communities under home rule preserve natural rights to preserve their land, air and water.
Communities can totally ordinance out by local rule wind turbines.
See http://www.celdf.org ( Citizens Environmental Legal Defense Fund . Contact chad@celdf.org)
"Civil Disobedience Ordinances" are fully called for in this respect. Rumford,do it or be ruined. The selectmen who say you have no right to regulate out by ordinance are being told distorted facts by the wind lobby and First Wind, or are being bribed or otherwise self-serving and protecting themselves.
Recall them, disobey their preaching, confront them.
Do not give in.
Get the facts.
Stop the process before those in control metasticize beyond control in your communitiy like they did in Lincoln, where the citizens were lied to consistently .
First Wind is controlling your process, and some selectmen are probably under their direct influence now.
DON'T BE FOOLS!
Fight it tooth and nail, or YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Come to Lincoln and see what is at stake.
Is the “displacing of signs” by citizens an illegal act?
They ARE YOUR SIGNS, YOU PAID FOR THEM, BEST TO BURN THEM in PUBLIC!
Was the dumping of tea into Boston harbor an illegal act?
History will show both were needed and necessary to repel the scoundrel interlopers!
Rumford, Lock arms and Kick First Wind out!
Always remember this;
They are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen
They are neither virtuous nor wise.
The developers like First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas like Rumford and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine.
They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
In Lincoln, as is probably being done right now in Rumford, the council was influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to, saying, "We will take legal action against you."
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed an ethics code against their underhanded dealings, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you can, ordinance them out!
Do so, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
They never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing, use it.
In Lincoln, as is probably being done right now in Rumford, the council was influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to, saying, "We will take legal action against you." They lied!
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed and ethics code against the underhanded dealing, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First Wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you must ordinance them out!
Do so, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.Visit Lincoln. Don't be fools.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
Haddock never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing.
Communities under home rule preserve natural rights to preserve their land, air and water.
Communities can totally ordinance out by local rule wind turbines.
See http://www.celdf.org ( Citizens Environmental Legal Defense Fund . Contact chad@celdf.org)
"Civil Disobedience Ordinances" are fully called for in this respect. Rumford,do it or be ruined. The selectmen who say you have no right to regulate out by ordinance are being told distorted facts by the wind lobby and First Wind, or are being bribed or otherwise self-serving and protecting themselves. Recall them, disobey their preaching, confront them.
Do not give in.
Get the facts. Stop the process before those in control metasticize beyond control in your communitiy like they did in Lincoln, where the citizens were lied to consistently . First Wind is controlling your process, and some selectmen are probably under their direct influence now.
DON'T BE FOOLS!
Fight it tooth and nail, or YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Come to Lincoln and see what is at stake.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and seeing is believing.
Visit Lincoln and see the once " Land of 13 Lakes", (now ruined).
See the Land of 40 Turbines!
It is a good place to visit , and leave quickly after seeing the blades spin and the noise spread.
Then decide, non-self - serving residents of Rumford!
Don't let the Scoundrels and financial sell-outs take your towns sole for greed and subsidy scamming.
Now properties are for sale with no buyers in Lincoln, people are aghast at the project. It is too late for the fools in Lincoln, don't add to the fools of Rumford!
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They(First Wind) have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of First Wind in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
This is what people should know about the handling of the Rollins Wind project. It should set off alarms with anyone who values the ideal of participatory democracy and has a sense of fairness.
1. It is the first project that was rammed through as a result of the heinous Expedited Wind Permitting statute, which has opened the floodgates for the proliferation of these projects, a giveaway of rural Maine to an industry that wouldn't exist without extensive Taxpayer subsidies and preferential treatment.
2. First Wind was wooing Lincoln elected and appointed public officials for more than 6 years before announcement of their plans. Instead of being responsible public servants and sponsoring an extensive public examination of the issues, they did everything possible to open the door to a company with questionable reputation.
3. The only public forum ever held in Lincoln was a carefully controlled First Wind "Dog & Pony Show" that raised more questions than provided answers to any citizens who asked questions rather than just accept the company's propaganda.
4. After First Wind's intentions became clear in September of 2008, the Lincoln Town Council refused to enact a Moratorium to provide the community with an opportunity to consider the multiplicity of issues raised by a citizens' group and within two months, the First Wind application was deemed "complete" and the countdown under the Expedited Wind Permitting began relentlessly.
5. One single copy of the huge, 3-volume application was available to read at Town Hall, but the Planning Board, so eager to do the bidding of First Wind, set a hearing on the application for the absolute minimum number of days for public notice. The compact disc and on-line versions of the mind-numbing detail in the application was available only 3 days before the public hearing.
6. At the public hearing, the Chairman of the Planning Board refused to recuse himself over conflict of interest, that being, he was the realtor who represented the major landowner as lessor for parcels included in First Wind leases. The citizens were given 2 minutes each to comment on the complex application. The chairman and a stalwart zealot on behalf of First Wind attempted to ram through a vote that very night until one Planning Board member questioned whether Board members had read what they were about to vote on. When they admitted they hadn't, the vote was postponed.
7. When the Planning Board met 2 weeks later, no further public comments were allowed, yet when questions were asked of representatives of First Wind, the company was allowed unrestrained time to advocate for the project. The application was quickly pushed through for approval. A huge, community-altering change to the Lincoln Lakes area approved with about the same consideration as someone proposing to add a tool shed to his or her property!
8. The Town Council approved the Planning Board's decision in a meeting where citizens were given 5 minutes each for comments, doing so even when it was faced with an even larger crowd asking questions critical of the project. First Wind officials were not subject to the Egg Timer and was unfettered in its obvious advocacy for approval.
9. The Lincoln Town Council agreed to have First Wind pay for the town's lawyer at Eaton Peabody to negotiate the TIF agreement with First Wind's lawyer at Eaton Peabody and rubber stamped the resulting give back of 50% of the property taxes to be generated.
10. The Appeals Board in Lincoln strategized with First Wind to attack and discredit the citizens group and voted that the hastily organized group lacked standing to appeal the Planning Board's decision to violate Lincoln's Land Use Ordinance in approving an industrial development in a rural residential zone.
11. The follow through on this horrendous un-civic process at the state level has been as bad. It started with the DEP refusing to hold a formal hearing where sworn testimony and cross-examination can take place. To date, throughout the state, this has been the case because the Expedited Wind Permitting statute does not allow it. DEP only has a local "meeting" to allow citizens to raise questions and make comments, most of which are answered with wind industry propaganda or no answer at all.
12. The DEP staff and the Board of Environmental Protection (and LURC in non-DEP jurisdictions) have clearly been marching to the orders of Baldacci, who has made proliferation of the wind industry his legacy. It is abundantly clear that state workers fear speaking out of line and the BEP members, all Baldacci appointees, are following through to allow the environment of rural Maine to be devastated by at least 45 projects the size of the Rollins project in Lincoln Lakes.
13. The courts have turned their backs on the serious issues raised by citizen groups. The State Supreme Judicial Court, even after several members pointedly examined the issues, voted to say the Expedited Wind Permitting statute is the will of the Legislature (which voted it through as a last minute, non-publicized, bill in the short session of the Legislature in April 2008) and they would not rule against it.
So here we are, with an undeserving company that steamrolled over local officials, handed the undue opportunity to ruin a beautiful corner of Maine. Sadly, Lincoln has failed and it will never be the same. When the First Wind project is finished and the impact gets realized, in Lincoln there will be a lot of regrets expressed.
First Wind's 'proper channels" are bribery, collusion,deception, payoffs, handouts, and connections to the power elite of Maine to make this travesty happen. Ask Angus King as well how it is done.
Stop Them From Eating Your Town!
“ Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.”
- Andrew Jackson-
We all need to take more actions to combat this corporate scam in Maine.
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They(First Wind) have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of First Wind in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
AND Tourists have eyes!
Visual Impact is considered IRRELEVANT under Expedited Wind Law. Thank yous go to Baldacci's "Governor's Task Force on Wind Power" . But remember this:
It is not really the Wind Power issue in Maine or” Green Jobs”, it is the “GREENBACK”, out of the citizens pockets, into vested special interests deceptive coffers. It is the scamming, self-serving subsidy sucking interests of wind scoundrels in the state versus the average citizen who has not been allowed a voice in the process by the quasi-legal legislated Expedited Wind Law. Its creators, with the scamming wind lobby are what has been in control to date.The Task Force even forgot to record important decision making sessions on site selection discussions ? Sure!
But , the public is waking up!
So are Maine businesses, as they know that their electrical costs will be doubling in the “Green Future” shortly if this scam is allowed to continue.
For every Green Job created, 2 to 3 others will be lost in affiliated industries that cannot be the subsidy piggies of the Green Promotion by Federal subsidization. It is a scam of epic proportion. Government picking of energy winners always turns out to be a loser for us all.
Recent Comments
Haud unquam cedo!
Never give in to the scoundrels of Maine's corrupt wind cartel!
Kick them out!
Turbines create serious damage for over 2.5 miles omni-directionally from infra sound alone.
Come to Lincoln and see/hear for yourselves.
The wind liars and DEP are complicit in one of the biggest scams in Maine's history.
Defiance is in order!
Well done Sumner; protect your homes and health .
Shills Need To Make a Living Too. But not off our backs, SORRY!
The Wind Developers like Angus King and son ( of First Wind), and now starry eyed environmentalists (turned wind shill) like Katie Chapman, are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and
entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease
agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.
Fewer Mainers are now ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who now have an idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
The area ruined is bathed by health-impacting infra-sound and environmental fracturing for 3 miles in all direction and more.
Wind scoundrel, snake-oil sellers will reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine.
They bribe with other half baked schemes.
Talk is cheap!
Subsidy sucking wind associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment.
They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexes to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more Katies's Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
It is simple.
Shill for someone with some ethics if that is all you can do with your Spainish degree Katie.
BTW, the Border Control could use your skills in Texas and Arizona ; that would provide you a more secure useful future.
The Citizens of Peru will not stand for Spainish ,EDP bunk !
Spain Desperately Trying to Screw Mainers, Katie Chapman Shills!
n early 2009 the Socialist government of Spain reduced alternative energy subsidies by 30%. Calzada continues:
"At that point the whole pyramid collapsed. They are firing thousands of people. BP closed down the two largest solar production plants in Europe. They are firing between 25,000 and 40,000 people...."
"What do we do with all this industry that we have been creating with subsidies that now is collapsing? The bubble is too big. We cannot continue pumping enough money. ...
The President of the Renewable Industry in Spain (wrote a column arguing that) ...the only way is finding other countries that will give taxpayers' money away to our industry to take it and continue maintaining these jobs."
That "other country" is the United States of America.
Spain Desperately Trying to Screw Mainers, Katie Chapman Shills!
n early 2009 the Socialist government of Spain reduced alternative energy subsidies by 30%. Calzada continues:
"At that point the whole pyramid collapsed. They are firing thousands of people. BP closed down the two largest solar production plants in Europe. They are firing between 25,000 and 40,000 people...."
"What do we do with all this industry that we have been creating with subsidies that now is collapsing? The bubble is too big. We cannot continue pumping enough money. ...
The President of the Renewable Industry in Spain (wrote a column arguing that) ...the only way is finding other countries that will give taxpayers' money away to our industry to take it and continue maintaining these jobs."
That "other country" is the United States of America.
The truth about costly "Industrial Wind Complexes",
LePage just articulates what Rooks and his wind obfuscators and deceivers do not want anyone to hear.
Wind is free, but the Industrial wind complexes are not.
They are only called “ wind farms” because Rooks and friends are milking the subsidies and the PTC's and other financial benefits from us , the taxpayers .
From their costly rare earth metals (from mainly China), to mountaintop environmental destruction, wind is very costly to this society.
In the attempt to harness low density wind to create electricity, all along the way, the costs mount, and the dollars are dense indeed .
All winds costs are upfront Rooks declares, but doesn't say where the money comes from.
I suppose we taxpayers are the ones who pay the upfront costs and prevent the likes of snake-oil salesman King from taking the risk. First Wind and other subsidy scammers of this unsavory hedging plot and risk lowering LLC creators take our money and laugh all to the their foreign accounts
From the billions in unneeded wind transmission lines , to the damage of abutter land value and health consequences from infra-sound to the low job creation at high unit cost, wind is not cheap for anyone.
The minor benefits are overridden by the numerous costs to society in the long run.
But why worry about this, when tens of millions can be scammed to the elitists from a fad that will be dead in this decade?
The natural gas will flow, and the oil production will grow, and the wind will blow.
The subsidy money is finite however, as Congress now realizes this Mr. Rooks.
LePage is a breath of honest fresh air .
It is what we get from an item that determines its worth, and wind is much better at blowing subsidy money than making electrons flow.
Congress now realizes this, and the funds will hopefully stop flowing this year to this fad.
Wind is one of the most costly fads this society has created in recent history .
Only a the elite benefit, and we pay for it, unless we smarten up, and that is what is occurring now.
Now we all know how some undeserving wealthy leverage and make money, they put the risk you and I.
What Rooks really dislikes is that this governor is very public in spreading the truth, and the truth will set us free(and lower our taxes).
Wind Industrial scammers do not like such a public voice barging into their inside game.
But Mr. Rooks, the game is up, and Congress is listening.
see:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230359240457736424400639142...
We Don't Forget! We know How Siting is Done by Wind Companies
Lies, More Lies, and More Liars!
This are the only way to describe the AWEA and the purveyors of ruinous, feckless, wasteful and uneconomic wind complexes.
The financial subsidy scamming of our tax system to destroy areas of Maine is now known, and being ordinanced out by all aware communities in Maine.
This process has only started.
From the perverted civil process, lack of transparency, squelch clauses, bribery and crony capitalistic process; wind power is a lie.
Abutters hear the complexes from miles around, yes miles!
It transforms rural areas into noise zones.
Loss of recreational area,loss of natural habitat, loss of property value, loss of sleep, loss of health.
An “illegal taking “with no financial recourse is occurring to citizens of Maine.
The abutters have had little legal recourse to date.
Desecration of Maine has occurred in several communities to date.
Civil action in communities has slowed down the wind destruction, and hopefully will kill the wind scamming process Anderson represents , before more harm is done to Maine.
The candidacy of Angus King for Maine Senate will bring this wind scamming even more to the public eye.
Many enemies have been made in Maine by the likes of Mr .Anderson, Angus King, and other wind scoundrels.
By their daily lies , and by the the despicable damage to the soul of Maine, more Mainers are now aware.
Now, many act, everywhere , everyplace , to this foul industry and to the perpetrators of the Wind Scam!
We Don't Forget.
What do we call a king?
"The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."
Wind is proven to be a subsidy farce.
Hello Solyndra!
All it does is provide greenbacks to the scoundrel wind elite, off the backs of the many.
see why a "King" is being closely looked at.
http://www.windtaskforce.org
DEVELOPING: KING WIND PROJECT- Congressional Investigation
If Angus wants to have a party, maybe it should be done with an "orange suit" on.
See the developing story on the King Investigation by Congress.
See the below links please.
http://www.themainewire.com/2012/03/developing-king-wind-project-cited-c...
http://www.windtaskforce.org
Report Refers to project as part of a pattern of “dysfunction, negligence and mismanagement”
Sun Journal's Undying Wind Scam Support is Breathtaking!
And lets face it , that is what the criticism of LePage's and Flethcer's common sense energy plans are about.
End the Wind Subsidy Scam in Maine!
Wind and solar companies are net tax beneficiaries who wish to defeat Lepage's energy plan.
Taxpayers would save billions of dollars if wind and solar produced no energy at all!
A July 2011 Energy Department study found that oil, natural gas and coal received an average of 64 cents of subsidy per megawatt hour in 2010.
Wind power received nearly 100 times more, or $56.29 per megawatt hour."
The wind industry is comprised of liars and deceivers, and is a useless waste of taxpayer dollars.
I suppose Sun Journal has applied some basic math to Wind costs and published them , have they not?
I suggest reading the EIA data, and then applying some common sense and basic economics to their poorly researched editorials criticizing LePage's Energy plans.
Laws cannot be violated because of "the deal"
In reference to the merger of Emera/First Wind/Algonquin / others , concerning PUC Doc 2011-170.
Guess what, even First Wind, (Enron's Bastard Son), bathed in special treatment in Maine by the expedited wind law, has to follow the laws of this state. The deal hopefully will be killed, as detrimental to all Maine citizens. It would result in increased costs of electricity for all, from feckless wind scamming. Fortunately, our Public Advocate, Eric Bryant, is doing his job, even if the Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, as well as the Bangor Daily (BTW, part of the aboove case) are not.
So, look into the public minutes of this testimony. Fitst Wind is in big trouble, now under appeal by them as a sore loser. The appeal hopefully will be thrown out. They defied subpoena of documents as well, relating to Kurt Adams .
The deal should be dead, dead. In addition First Wind should be banned and sanctioned from any further business in this state.That may occur.
(from the transcript below, Jan 25, 2012,PUC Doc 2011-170)
" So there's a lot of violations here. Not just by the
non-parties but by the Petitioners themselves. This case is
not governed by the rule of the deal or the rule of corporate
profit or the viability of unregulated enterprise. It's
governed by the rule of law. The rules broken by Petitioners
and their counterparties to the pending transactions are not
about missing a deadline or failing to three-hole punch data
responses. They're rules of substance, integrity, and ethics.
It's the ex parte rule which rule should not be treated lightly
by the Commission or the Examiners. The rule was adopted, in
fact, in 1996 following a case in which NYNEX had others
interested in the outcome who were not parties attempt to
contact Commissioners after the Examiners' Report came out.
Rule 760-A was a reaction to that and, in fact, in the rule
adopting that new amendment, the Commission said, "Our primary
objective in addressing this issue is to prevent similar
behavior by parties to our proceedings in the future. The
purpose of the rule amendments is to make our ex parte
prohibition abundantly clear so there's no question about the
extent of its reach. And we seek only to ensure that
participation occurs at a time and in a manner that is fair to
all parties."
BROWN & MEYERS (transcriber)
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The violations that I've discussed are egregious and,
in my practice, unprecedented by a utility subject to
regulation. Violations such as this must be dealt with firmly
and swiftly. The public demands that PUC process be one of
integrity. The public must be able to trust that their
interests are being handled by this Commission and that it
keeps its house in order.
Now Sun Journal, is this news?
Or does your clear bias prevent the truth from being disclosed?
Uh Oh Anabel, look what else your hero Obama says......
"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy," Obama said in his address. "Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I'm requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk."
So here is this fact even Obama, "Mr. Renewable" gets.
WE HAVE PLENTY OF DENSE , RELIABLE FOSSIL FUEL AVAILABE DOMESTICALLY, and from our CANADIAN friends.(unless we go to war with Quebec).
Technology advances, and oil drilling as well is much safer than it was 20 years ago (even after the BP accident).
Drilling offshore of Maine might indeed be a wonderful way to expand Maine's job base.
BTW, Canadian Maritime drilling is expanding, do you fear a spill from them as well?
Did you stop flying after the last commercial airline accident BTW?
If you did, then please negate all I have said. I will help you buy a few dense mattresses to pad your rooms from your next earthquake in Maine.
Anabel Demonstrates a HIgh Level of Energy Myth ...and
lack of Science.
The first and second laws of thermodynamics cannot be overcome by NON-DENSE,(low-density) electron sources, such as onshore, or offshore wind toys.
Just as Mr. Obama's tune had to change when applying science to energy(which he and his advisors may sometimes think about), if we did not have high levels of domestic energy sources available, we would have to invent them. There is no substitute for oil and natural gas, and he knows this. He also knows there are plenty of them as well, we just have to get them, politics aside.
Obama has to pander to his scientifically naive liberal base for politics, but politics won't power American modernity, ever.He had to get real.
So Anabel, please tell me how offshore wind meets any of the below requirements, any electrical utility knows must be met to turn on your lights, when and if you need them.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.(period)
How does wind meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
Any electric utility must meet the following, well known in the industry to survive.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Can an intermittent source like feckless wind meet these numerous demands?
There is a place for wind and solar (independent residential of industrial use is sometimes economical, but costly), but GRID SCALE....nope.
Oh, when LePage allows the Renewable Option to be selected for use as Your energy supplier, please request the renewable option at a 30 percent premium!
Your neighbor most likely will stick to the standard offer, derived mainly from natural gas and hydro, and nuclear.
Wind , a Foul Wind indeed....
Can an ethical Maine State Government dare do ANY business with this scoundrel of a wind company?
(from testimony DOC.# 2011-170 ,Jan 25, 2012, PUC Emera/Algonquin/First Wind reorganization hearing)
direct recorded testimony:
ERIC BRYANT, Office of the Public Advocate:
"...The rules broken by Petitioners and their counterparties to the pending transactions are not about missing a deadline or failing to three-hole punch data responses. They're rules of substance, integrity, and ethics."
Tony Buxton for Industrial Energy Consumer Group:
"...It makes this kind of proceeding into something other than a legal proceeding. And that's wrong. We realize there's a lot
at stake for some people here, but we have a process for that to come forward and people are bound by what they say and what they do. And we are not only disappointed, we are shocked that this kind of thing could happen at this Commission. And we think the only remedy because of the taint in the Petitioners' filing of incorporating comments that the Petitioner knew were not proper and those having gone to the Commission already, the only remedy is to require those to be rejected and to dismiss this case. If the parties want to go out and put together another deal and come back with another deal, that's their privilege. But to reward them by changing this proceeding to somehow accommodate what they have done here is exactly the wrong thing to do. Thank you.”
ALAN STONE, Skelton, Taintor & Abbott
MR. STONE: "I've been practicing law before this Public Utilities Commission for 37 years, and it's one of the most favorite things I've ever done in my life until this week. I have never seen an abuse of process like has occurred in this case in my history of practice before this Commission, perhaps with the exception of a person who was convicted of a crime.
Administrative agencies, according to the United States Supreme Court, are based on concepts of fair play. We come to this agency with a trust that this Commission and the staff are going to require the parties to play by the rules and play on a level playing field and not proceed in a case in a manner that all they seek to do is win at all costs regardless of what they do. It is so clear what has happened here, as aptly summarized by Eric, by Charlie, and by Tony. It literally makes me sick.
There is no way that we can proceed in this case. The record is tainted. We can't just simply re-open the record to allow them to change the deal when they want to change the deal because they're losing. I mean, to reward, as Tony said, the Petitioners and First Wind and APUC would be terrible, in a word. It would undermine the confidence in this agency, and what this Commission is trying to prevent with regard to this deal is undermine the confidence in the market. You don't
undermine the confidence in the agency.
This is only one group of people's fault. It was a deliberate action. If this were a court of law, this case would be dismissed in a moment. You can't get to a jury five minutes before and say, oops, I screwed up, I should have put more evidence in and then inflict some conduct that causes a mistrial and expect to start all over again. No court would allow that. They would dismiss it with prejudice, and that would be the end of it. And they would impose sanctions and serious ones.
...So the way forward is to simply say no, this deal we've been looking at, this transaction, is only an economic deal to benefit First Wind and Emera. It's not a reliability issue. The question is harm. Well, we know how harmed we're going to be now. If you can't trust these people to comply with the fundamental rules of this Commission, how can you trust them to do anything in the ratepayers' interest? They've proven this point. Mr. Harwood can have all his responses to everything that we've said, but I think the truth will shine through clearly and does. So I join on behalf of Houlton Water Company with the motions that have been made to dismiss this proceeding with prejudice and, in addition, so the record is clear, to strike Petitioners' comments and exceptions in their entirety. If the -- when I say dismiss with prejudice, if there's some other deal that comes together later on that is significantly different from this deal and that is not just a re-packaging to get around a denial, then maybe this Commission might look at it, maybe they won't. But that's for a future date. Right now the remedy is to dismiss it with prejudice.
Thank you.”
This company, First Wind, should be banned , as suggested here, from any dealings in this state.
Individuals directly connected witr this companies business modus operandi and planning in this state, should be closely scrutinized, and and punished as well in accordance to the law.
Enron's Bastard Son, First Wind, Caught!
Docket 2011-170, feb 2, 2012 (see it all at http://www.windtaskforce.org)
"By filing their coordinated “exceptions” and letter, First Wind and APUC attempted to subvert the intention and effect of this rule. Therefore, the Examiners correctly excluded APUC’s and First Wind’s filings.
The Petitioners’ actions give rise to particular and very serious concerns.
Petitioners have deliberately attempted to inject new evidence into the record “through the back door,” long after the record closed on December 9, 2011 and at that point in the proceeding where other parties are not afforded a chance to respond, test the evidence through cross examination, engage in discovery, present witnesses, or otherwise have the benefit of the procedural safeguards of an evidentiary record Their Exceptions, containing these new facts, were filed in blatant disregard of at least two of the Commission’s rules and in direct violation of the Examiners’ January 19 Scheduling Order, and in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome. The rules violated are rules of integrity, fundamental fairness and substance, not mere housekeeping rules designed to advance administrative efficiency"
GET THEM OUT OF MAINE!
Petitioners violated Chapter 110 section 760-A(a) and (d~ of the Commission’s Rules. The filing of “exceptions” by APUC and First Wind violated the Ex Parte rule under Section 760-A(a) Petitioners’ subornation of these filings, as evidenced by the references to the filings in Petitioners Exceptions, also violates Section 760-A(d) which reads
No party in a proceeding shall request, encourage, suggest, or provide any assistance to any other person to make a communication that would violate subsection (a) of this section.
8Petitioners chose to engage in coordinated, concerted action with First Wind and APUC to assist them in an improper attempt to have a non-party influence the Commission after the date for filing exceptions, and to inject non-record information into evidence, and to couple this with a direct violation by commingling the prejudicial material into Petitioners own Exceptions. Petitioners deliberately cited to, quoted from, and indeed made such filings a part of their own January 23, 2012 Exceptions. Their awareness of procedural issues is revealed by the first footnote in their Exceptions. Petitioners’ actions were willful, ~vith the expectation that opposing parties would have no opportunity to respond,7 and for the primary purpose of influencing this Commission’s decision.
Enrons's Bastard Son Caught!
see Feb 2 , 2012 docket 2011-170!!!
ELECTRONICALLY FILED ON FEBRUARY 2,2012
STATE OF MAINE
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
BANGOR HYDRO ELECTRIC & )
MAINE PUBLIC SERVICE COS. )
Re: Request for Exemptions and for )
Reorganization Approvals )
Docket No. 2011-170
MOTION FOR DISMISSAL
AND SANCTIONS WITH
INCORPORATED MEMORANDUM
February 2, 2012
Now come the Office of the Public Advocate, Houlton Water Company, the Industrial Energy Consumer Group (“I7ECG”), and Boralex, Inc. (“Boralex”)(collectively, the “intervenors”) by and through their respective attorneys and move to dismiss these proceedings or to enter judgment against Bangor Hydro Electric Company and Maine Public Service Company (“Petitioners”) based upon the recommended findings of the Examiners~ Report.
I. INTRODUCTION
Petitioners have intentionally and recklessly violated the Commission’s Rules of Practice and the Examiners’ January 19, 2011 Scheduling Order by filing Exceptions tainted by prejudicial non-record information and by assisting and/or encouraging First Wind Holdings, LLC (“First Wind”) and Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (“APUC”) to file unauthorized comments doing the same. According to the Examiners, these exceptions have been reviewed by the Commissioners. As described herein, further consideration of the case at this point would violate fundamental principles of due process and would be unduly prejudicial to the intervenors in this case. Of equal importance is the fact that the actions of the Petitioners, First Wind and Algonquin Power have damaged the integrity of the adjudicatory process by intentionally exposing the Commissioners and their advisors to information outside of the record that, even if the Commission can ignore, undermines public confidence in the process. Dismissal with prejudice orjudgment against Petitioners are the appropriate remedies and sanctions for Petitioners’ violations of the Commission’s Rules and the January 19 Schedul
Honestly now!
Where does it state in the wind business that honesty is part of their business plan?
The Paid signature mercanaries of the Wind Self- Servers LOSE!
Yes, they were paid to collect signatures, as I was told by one of them a few weeks ago.
They could have done a better job. Perhaps they were waiting for more subsidy money to support their next try!
You know how mercenaries work.
The average Mainer would collect signatures for free to LOWER THEIR RATES!
This initiative failed because Mainers want lower rates, not higher ones.
The average Mainer also knows this initiative was supported by Wind Shills from away and self-serving companies like REED & REED.
It should have been called, "Take my money, for MORE EXPENSIVE intermittent sometimes wind electricity."
Most just laughed and turned away, as I did.
Mainers are learning every day now how this renewable thing works.
And as more time passes, a more educated populace will pinch their noses more tightly.
Renewables on Grid Scale are a Subsidy farce, uneconomical and very costly to us all!they expect us to pay for them .
They do little to solve any of our energy concerns.
Solyndra any one? Beacon Power? First Wind?
He knows, We want lower rates, Not higher ones from SCAMS!
LePage and Fletcher know this well.
Well, does that make sense?
You Bet!
Bring on the Hydro and Gas Governah!
A new PAC has formed to demand lower rates for all of us .
Now , I wonder if they can get those signatures --to Lower Rates, from dense energy sources,
I for one, would collect those signature, FOR FREE!
Lets Look at Why RPS is a Farce, and hurting Maine's Economy
Please read the below if you are interested in facts.
The zealotry of the non -scientific RPS religous sect In Maine is not interested in FACTS.
DARN THEOSE PESKY FACTS!
LePage , as a realistic governor and business person knows the following:
The Report the White House Doesn’t Want You To Read, nor do the Zealots of RPS.:
Neither do Rep. Fitts and Hinck of the Maine EUT !
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WASHINGTON D.C.,Dec 6, 2011
The Institute for Energy Research released today a groundbreaking NorthAmerican EnergyInventory exposing the decades-long myth that the U.S. is running out of coal, oil, and natural gas because of inadequate domestic supplies. As a part of
IER’s year long “Energy for America” campaign, the report
details the vast energy resources that could power the nation’s
future, if not for government policy that stands in the way.
“The current administration and its green energy allies in business and in
Washington appear willing to drive up the price of energy for
American consumers by limiting access to our vast resources. For the
past several years, taxpayer dollars have been spent to fund unproven
green energy pipe dreams, while Americans have been denied the
opportunity to utilize the coal, oil, and natural gas that is
literally under our feet,” said IER President Tom Pyle about the
report.
“This energy report should change the conversation in Washington and
promote policies that reproduce nationwide the energy boom in places
like North Dakota, where unemployment is at now at 3.5 percent (the
lowest in the nation) and domestic production on private lands has
more than tripled in the last five years. The Institute for Energy
Research is proud to release this report, the culmination of months
of research and analysis by IER experts. We have drawn from a broad
array of government, industry, and university data to present hard
facts — not myths — about our energy future."
The report presents a clearer picture than the anti-fracking, anti-drilling, and
anti-exploring ideologues in Washington want the American people tos see.
Among the report’s findings are:
- When combined with resources from Canada and Mexico, the total recoverable
oil in North America exceeds 1.7 trillion barrels. That’s more than
the entire world has used in 150 years, and sufficient to fuel the
present needs in the United States for the next 250 years.
-In the last 30 years, the United States produced 77 billion barrels of
oil, which was more than 150 percent of the estimated reserves in
1980.
-The total amount of recoverable natural gas in North America is
approximately 4.2 quadrillion (4,244 trillion) cubic feet. That is
enough natural gas in North America to last for the next 175 years at
current rates of consumption.
- There is more recoverable natural gas in North America, Canada, and Mexico
than the combined proved reserves in Russia, Iran, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, and Turkmenistan.
-North America has more than 497 billion short tons of recoverable coal, or
nearly three times as much as Russia, which has the world’s second
largest reserves. In fact, North America’s recoverable coal
resources are bigger than the five largest non-North American
countries’ reserves combined (Russia, China, Australia, India,
Ukraine.)
-A scarcity of good policies, not a scarcity of energy, is responsible
for U.S. energy insecurity.
watch a video presentation of the report’s central findings, click
here.http://www.canadafreepress.com...
Attached
PDF from: http://energyforamerica.org/wp...
No Dick, IYBY!
In your self-serving backyard!
Wind Power will be about as low impact to Maine's economy as a bullet to ones head!
DE Shaw is Upset Today, Well Done PUC!
Ken Fletcher, Governor LaPage and now the Maine PUC are absolutely right.
Renewable mandate manipulation , and the attempted subversion of Maine Energy Law which demands separation of generation from transmission authority for the concept of competition in the energy arena for Mainers,has been under attack for years now.
It is under attack by DE Shaw's scoundrel, well attached First Wind , (also known as Enron's bastard son) who would do nothing but make electricity more expensive for Maine's ratepayers.
Wind toys only reward Maine's power elite , who subsidy suck on the teat of Obama's failed subsidization of renewable energy scams, such as Solyndra.
Well done Maine PUC!
Well done Maine businesses involved, if nothing else so that your energy and financial survival may be preserved in this electrically high cost state..
To Kurt Adams et al , Angus King and son, and other subsidy suckers, “if you can't make it there, you can't it make it anywhere”. Your failed IPO on Wall Street, of the scoundrel First Wind LLC shell game by DE Shaw ,can only scam so far.
They may have been able to shove LD-2283 down a naive legislatures throat in 2008 with a dim bulb governor lighting the way named Baldacci, but this attempted underhanded energy coup is a bit too far for even some in power positions in Maine.
Finally , an agency of Maine, the PUC, (the “P” standing for public), does its job.
KUDOS to you, Maine PUC.
The reality is the Baldacci administration was either incompetent, naive, drunk on green Koo-aid or heavily involved in cronyism to get involved with First Wind-- and because of this, this lunacy has pervaded our state.
We elected a new administration and a new legislature to stop this wastefulness and to put the people first.
I hope the LePage administration really helps to start to control Maine's high ELECTRICAL RATES!
Now let us hope the rest of the legislature does their job concerning the reigning- in of this and other scoundrel , subsidy sucking wind companies , such as First Wind , (Enron's Bastard Son).
Ethics?????? Self - Serving Wind politicians .....
Particularly as it applies to such as unsavory wind self-servers such as Angus King and son,Rep. Hinck and Fitts of Energy Utilities Tech. Commission,Kurt Adams and the other Wind Snake-Oil salesmem and wind scamming companies such as First Wind, and now the DEP of Maine( who refuse to do their mandated legal do process in this area).
They say the below , and laugh at the word.....
"Ethics, We Don't Need No Stinkin Ethics" HA !!!!!!
Renewables Cannot Power Modernity, EVER!
Defying the laws of thermodynamics is the theme of renewables, along with the religious fervor of the climate computerized theories that defy reality.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.
How does wind power meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
Any electric utility must meet the following, well known in the industry to survive.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Please renewable non-scientific zealots, address the above, as applied to wind, or even solar for that matter.
No sir, pipe dreams and religious fervor and snake oil salesmen as they realte to non-dense sources cannot do any of it.
Dense sources of electron production support modernity: the others will DRIVE US BANKRUPT!
Sorry, the consumer can't and won't buy the bull presented by religous global warming brain dead non-scientific zealots.
Perhaps a 50 cent/kwh charge is needed in Maine to wake up the populace and some brain dead politicians.
By then however, all business will have vacated the state, and for good reason.
The Governor may perhaps understand that.
The Green lobby Gestapo
Mr. Voorhees and NRCM in Lincoln in 2009, presented the community with a question and answer period.
All questions by the citizens were pre-screened.
Undesireable questions were eliminated.
Sieg NRCM!
NRCM has done to Lincoln what the SS did to its victims in eastern Europe.
NRCM and "Mr Voorhees", "The Green SS" ,is to be trusted in the same manner.
Protect yourselves good citizens of Peru.
Ordinance them out of your lives, before you are ruined like the Lincoln Lakes region!
Tell Voorhees and NRCM where to go and what will be done(period
Home rule in Maine is superior to any green dream of NRCM's perverted doctrine of global warming hysteria. This hysteria is also being shown to be a farce.
Peru should ordinance out wind scamming from its borders, and tell Voorhees to take his scam to another state. He has no authority, nor science, to say wind is a "solution " to anything.All her can do with the grren dream of his is attempt to pad NRCM's financial lock box and his meager greenwashed salary.
Ordinance them out Peru, do your civic duty, protect your citizens from infra-sound and the area from environmental devastation.
In Lincoln, (where he had never visited nor explored), he declared the area with pristine lakes and ridges to be unimportant and sacrificial to the cause. Indeed, it in now a mess.
Ordinance them out, or face the same fate.
The lies FROM the wind Companies ...see the facts of the farce!
Kibby I and II facts:
The above 132 MW wind turbine facility, capital cost $330 million, is owned by TransCanada and was built, after a lot of destruction, on one of the most beautiful ridge lines in Maine. TransCanada and Vestas the claimed that the capacity factor would be 0.32, or greater. It was placed in service on 10/31/2009.
Its FERC designation is Trans Canadian Wind Development, Inc. in case you want to look up the below data.
In 2009 and 2010, the facility had a lot of startup problems and its energy production was negligible.
In 2011, it had a capacity factor of 22.5% for the first 9 months.
For the 3rd quarter of 2011, it was 14.42%. Monthly capacity factors were as follows:
July 18.48%
Aug 12.31%
Sept 12.41%
Why are the CFs so low?
Winds on ridge lines have highly-irregular velocities AND directions. This does not show up when one does wind velocity testing for feasibility, but when rotors are 373 feet in diameter, one part of a rotor will likely see a different wind velocity AND direction from another part. This leads to highly inefficient energy production and CFs. Wind vendors are very familiar with this, but do not mention it. However, all is explained in this article. I recommend the VT-DPS and House Environment and Energy Committee, and all others, finally read this article, before "leading" Vermont into an expensive energy la-la-land.
http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/61309/lowell-mountain-wind-tu...
The Bolton Valley Ski Resort wind turbine CF also does not live up to claims.
http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/53258/examples-wind-power-learn
The New York State wind turbine CFs also do not live to claims. The Vendor promises were for capacity factors of 30% to 35%, before installation.
http://www.dailyenergyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/NY_CF2008-20...
The reality, after installation:
Installed capacity, MW: 1035.5 in 2008; 1,274 in 2009: 1,274 in 2009; 1,348 in 2010
Production, MWh: 1,282,325 in 2008; 2,108,500 in 2009, 2,532,800 in 2010
Capacity factors: 14.1% in 2008; 18.9% in 2009; 22.7% in 2010
The data for the table was obtained from the 2011 New York ISO Gold Book
http://www.nyiso.com/public/webdocs/services/planning/planning_data_refe...
Because no wind turbines were added during 2010, the 22.7% capacity factor of 2010 is the best proof of the lack of performance of the New York State wind turbine facilities.
This reality is not unique to Maine, Bolton Valley and NY State. It has replicated itself in The Netherlands, Denmark, England, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, etc. The production is invariably less than promised. Add this to the fact that the CO2 emissions reduction is much less than claimed, as shown in below articles, makes further investments in wind energy an extremely dubious and expensive
proposition.
http://theenergycollective.com/willem-post/64492/wind-energy-reduces-co2...
http://www.clepair.net/IerlandUdo.html
http://docs.wind-watch.org/BENTEK-How-Less-Became-More.pdf
http://www.clepair.net/windSchiphol.html
http://www.clepair.net/Udo-okt-e.html
Our Future, Defined by Maine Constitutional Breaches?
No more local ordinances are allowed by state decree
It has been declared that we are under central federal control, and wind turbines have been declared the answer to all of our problems.
States rights and local control are subordinant to the wind lobby and AWEA.
Self -serving interests (such as Angus King and son, Independence Wind and First Wind for example) and crony captialism now rules( as long as the public does not break into open revolt in the streets).
DEP/LURC are pupits of corporate citizens, and representative government has ended for the affected.
Does this sound surreal?
It should not, it is happening Right Now in the Plantation of Maine.
The Maine State Constitution is Supreme
Article One of Maine State Constitution Shall not be subverted!
It is only because of a sleeping citizenry that the stooges of Augusta attempt to centrally control. Let's face is, how many of them(politicians) read and understand Article one and the concept of home rule.(Yes, get it out and read it)!
Indeed in Maine , the Supreme court is affected more by politics than that which they are sworn to uphold it would seem.
They stand inferior to legislative dictates on the wind issue it would appear from past court tests brought by citizens (see Foll v DEP)
This is most unfortunate.
Only by having the citizens of each community raise hell in support of their constitutional rights opposing wind will this travesty called LD-2283(The Wind Law, past while the legislature slept) be expunged or controlled to prevent damage to the health and well being of Mainers.
But Mainers must seize their constitutional rights here.
USE THEM , OR LOSE THEM!
Maine Stays Poor because of Self-Serving at High Levels
Jon Hinck, Alex Cornell du Houx and Stacey Fitts - three of the 12 members (25%) of the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
The following is the definition of Conflict of Interest from the Maine Government website:
"The Legislative Ethics Law lists several situations involving a conflict of interest. These include situations in which a Legislator or a member of the Legislator’s immediate family has a unique and distinct interest in legislation, or accepts or engages in employment that could impair the Legislator’s judgment. In some cases, a conflict can exist if the employer or client of a Legislator — or another person or organization in close economic association with the Legislator — has a direct financial interest in legislation."
Jon Hinck is married to Juliet Browne who is a lawyer and partner at Verill Dana whose main practice deals with the defense of wind power companies .She has been extremely busy in the past few years representing wind developers on the local level, before Maine DEP ,and LURC and defending the companies in numerous appeals and lawsuits . She has represented First Wind, TransCanada and Independence Wind and is quite possibly the wind industry’s leading attorney in Maine.
Alex Cornell du Houx, an avid supporter of wind power, is the outreach coordinator of the Truman National Security Project. This organization states a deep philosophical belief that climate change is a national security threat. On that subject one of their position papers includes the following statement concerning the threat of climate change to our country’s national security, "Even if you do not have complete information, you still need to take action! Waiting for 100% certainty during a crisis can be disastrous." That sounds awfully like, “Shoot first then ask questions “. A sister organization of the Truman National Security Project is Operation Free, where Mr. Du Houx serves as Campaign Director. Operation Free lists as its first core motivational principal “get America running on clean energy”. In fact, the organization’s logo prominently features industrial wind turbines.
Stacey Fitts, co-chair of the Joint Standing Committee on
Energy, Utilities and Technology, works for Kleinschmidt Associates, an engineering, licensing, environmental service firm offering specialized technical services to the renewable industry. Attached to this email is some information regarding that firm. Kleinschmidt’s wind focus is primarily off -shore wind power, but the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee makes decisions on offshore wind and decisions made for offshore wind will benefit onshore, such as anything that helps along large transmission projects. Co-Chair Fitts was quoted in the February 7, 2011 Sun-Journal as saying "Everyone wants to find the conflict, the snake in the grass. But every legislator in the building is conflicted if you were to take that same standard and apply it to everyone else. It’s the nature of being part-time legislators."
But what happens when the legislator’s employer actively approves of its employee’s work as a legislator and perhaps encourages such legislative endeavors to exceed simple part-time work? As can be seen above, Kleinschmidt’s website brazenly boasts, “we have been very active in the development of state regulations in Maine where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force.
Fitts, DuHoux, Hinck..all self-serving WIND SHILLS!
RE:Fitts
This is absurd, and this should be investigated.
LaPage should force all the above to RECUSE on this issue.
SEE THIS from Kleinscmidt's Web site(2009), with Fitts being the engineer in question.
"and we have been very active in the
development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force."
and this:
"Kleinschmidt is one of the United States' leading hydropower
engineering and licensing firms and has designed and licensed
numerous hydroelectric projects throughout the country. In
addition to hydroelectric power, Kleinschmidt is involved in
other aspects of the energy industry and has performed a
number of investigations related to the development of other
renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, and
biomass.
EUT Co-chair Fitts, once again undermining the Governor, talks about how letting Canadian hydro qualify for renewables goals would hurt Maine's budding wind industry.
Would this be a conflict, i.e., the co-chair of EUT fighting foreign hydro because it may compete with the domestic hydro (as well as wind) that is his employer's specialty?
Governor LaPage, this wreaks.
Don't let this self-serving "Kleinschmidt Shill" hurt all the citizens and businesses of Maine by increasing our electric costs more!!
The Price of the Wind Scam in Maine will ....
kill more businesses and make Maine less desireable to them as well .
Maine stays poor because of self-serving politicians and crony capitalism from the likes of Hinck, Fitts, K. Adams , Angus King and others.
Those elected self-servers should be openly chastised, investigated and removed ,to preserve our state.
Fitts WREAKSo of Conflicts, and should ...
RECUSE HIMSELF from any discussions on Hydro Power or Wind here for that matter.
This is absurd, and this should be investigated.
LaPage should force him to RECUSE on this issue.
SEE THIS from Kleinscmidt's Web site(2009), with Fitts being the engineer in question.
"and we have been very active in the
development of state regulations in Maine, where one of Kleinschmidt’s engineers is a member of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force."
and this:
"Kleinschmidt is one of the United States' leading hydropower
engineering and licensing firms and has designed and licensed
numerous hydroelectric projects throughout the country. In
addition to hydroelectric power, Kleinschmidt is involved in
other aspects of the energy industry and has performed a
number of investigations related to the development of other
renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, and
biomass.
EUT Co-chair Fitts, once again undermining the Governor, talks about how letting Canadian hydro qualify for renewables goals would hurt Maine's budding wind industry.
Would this be a conflict, i.e., the co-chair of EUT fighting foreign hydro because it may compete with the domestic hydro (as well as wind) that is his employer's specialty?
Governor LaPage, this wreaks.
Don't let this self-serving "Kleinschmidt Shill" hurt all the citizens and businesses of Maine by increasing our electric costs more!!
I take it you are a dreamer and not a scientist Patricia
Your theme of defying the laws of thermodynamics here, along your youthful religious fervor of the climate computerized theories that defy reality are stunning.
Dense energy sources are needed to power modernity.
Have you ever heard of the two laws above?
How does wind trickle meet the criteria every electrical generating source must meet?
For your edification, any electric utility must meet the following, well known facts to survive.
Please ask your electrical engineering student friends you might have the below, or , do some research please Patricia.
Answer the below please concerning your savior offshore , or onshore wind for that matter.
Those who can do math know the following.
1.The source must provide large amounts of electrons (it must be dense)
2.The power must be reliable and predictable.
3.The electrons must be dispatchable (high or low amount must be generated on demand)
4.It must serve one or more grid demand elements(base load, load following and peak load).
5.The utilization of environment must be minimal and compactness is a must, or it is non-green and damaging the environment.
6.It must be economical
Patricia, please address the above.
No my dear, your pipe dream and religious fervor and snake oil wind beliefs herein cannot do any of it.
Your belief in it is pure pure BUNK and politicized nonsense to any scientist or thinking individual who can read and understand the first two laws of thermodynamics.
Dense sources of electron production support modernity.
Or perhaps you can occupy Wall Street and live w/o electricity.
Sorry, the consumer can't and won't buy the bull presented here.
30 cents a KW/h generation, for a fickle trickle of expensive non-dense sources of electricity will make your generation paupers, with no jobs.
Enjoy it if you wish, or do the basic math or understand the physics of power generation, and buy gas or hydro for Maine., or perhaps (lordy) drill offshore and really create thousands of jobs for Mainers.
It's easy, JUst Ordinance Them Out,and Remember This
The Peru Wind Developers are neither virtuous nor wise. The Wind Developers like Angus King and son and First Wind and others are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
The Peru developer and his subsidy sucking wind associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexes to the public. The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more this Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.It is simple,
JUST KICK THEM OUT!
The scoundrels have come to town! Beware!
The first question any citizen must ask of the "officials is",
1."What is in it for you Mr/Mrs selectman?", have you been personally approached with a monetary offer by the wind company.
2.Have there been any "secret meeitng with the wind company?".
3.A full declaration must be made of the land owners contacts with the wind company and any lease arrangements in progress or contemplated.
There is no trust to be extended to these companies, they have already a long history of deceptive tactics, if not illegal tactics in Maine, with no ethics laws governing their actions.
4. Full transparancy must be practiced. They will try to influence any proceedings, be aware of that from the onset.
Rumford, Just another day in the Wind Scam
As was said before by educated others on this subject,
"I would like to recommend the independent film "Windfall" Produced by Laura Isreal
http://windfallthemovie.com/index_1.html
What is highlighted in the film is the covert way that wind developers operate. Targetting elected officials with large tracts of land,ignoring the majority of people who will have to live in the shadows of turbines owned by utility companies and billionaire investors.
Making false claims about the impacts that wind development will have on established land uses, future development and the property values of the area.
Intensionally pitting neighbor against neighbor. What they are doing is comparable to scattering a handful of twenty dollar bills in a crowd of people at city hall while their associates are are across the street robbing the bank".
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/windfall
and Sun Journal, BTW, please report on this one
PERU APPROVES WIND MORATORUIM!
"Peru Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Wind Moratorium"
see please,
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/peru-voters-overwhelmingly-a...
The TRUTH concerning the Wind Scam in Maine has a way of spreading doesn't it Messrs McInnis, Mcaffrey and Belanger.
You serve, you do not rule in this society (try as you may to do otherwise).
So now you don't like the democratic process, BECAUSE YOU LOST!
Mr. McInnis,
When put to an honest democratic vote by an informed electorate, WIND Scoundrels like First Wind and those that succumb to their bribery, will always lose.
Residents under constitutional home rule of Maine have superior rights to those self serving, subsidy sucking property owners who now are upset they can't be welfare recipients to the federal buck and have lost a civic fight, under the law.
Citizens have the rights, indeed the responsibility to protect our area, health, and pocket books.
The only protection from scoundrels and liars and deceivers is an informed and active electorate.
You don't like it , Tough.
Wind companies and those who they bribe know that communities all over Maine are rising up and protecting themselves from the wind scoundrels, like First Wind and their community destructive tactics.
The game is up
Three citizen votes, three loses for the wind scoundrels.
Give it a try the forth time, or try to unorganize Rumford perhaps into a medieval fiefdom perhaps, and you may win, but not under Maine State constitutional law.
That to might be illegal don't you think?
There are communities that can be bought,(like the dirty political and underhanded town of Lincoln, also known as Haynes-town, where First Wind illegally got a project in ).
It is wonderful that Rumford citizens have educated themselves and put a stop to the illegalities of wind scoundrels, by seizing their home rule powers.
As far as the land owning self serving abusers I say, shut off your land, close the gates, and citizens will flip the bird to you!
It will be well deserved!
Just remember have the self-serving land owners pay their land taxes, without our money!
Reed and Reed Talks here, DUH, are they a Wind SHILL?
Come on Sun Journal, Pat Defilipp is the project manager for Reed and Reed, putting up Wind Turbines for First Wind and others all over Maine!
Do you think there should be a disclaimer here?
Duh, is THIS AN AD FOR THEM, and DID YOU get paid for it?
THe Maine Wind FARCE!
Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
The Maine Wind Farce!
Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
Wind Scoundrels in Your Backyard!
The Associatred Wind Developers like Matt Damon, Angus King and son and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Matt Damon and his subsidy sucking wind Associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
It is simple, JUST KICK THEM OUT!
Why Sacrifice your land for a lie?
"The Department of Energy’s "Billion Ton Study" has shown that wind and solar energy combined "could at best provide only 5 percent of our total energy needs."
Wind is proven to be a subsidy farce.
Hello Solyndra!
All it does is provide greenbacks to the scoundrel wind elite, off the backs of the many.
Kick them out!
As the Wind SCoundrels and Snake Oil Salesmen Push Their Wares!
They is neither virtuous nor wise.
The Associatred Wind Developers like Matt Damon, Angus King and son and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Matt Damon and his subsidy sucking wind Associates live off of the backs of Mainers and US taxpayers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
It is simple, JUST KICK THEM OUT!
Scoundrels All
Never deal with scoundrels Farmington!
King, and his Enronesque,Solyndraesque Wind Scheme in Maine
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen!
He is neither virtuous nor wise.
The wind developers like Angus King and son and First Wind, are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.
They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers and scam our taxes and desecrate our environment. They portray themselves as green ; they are greenback lovers only.
They are this decade's despicable snake oil salesmen, never telling the whole truth about Industrial Wind Complexex to the public.
The more that is exposed by factual questions (you they will never get factual answers) , the more his Enronesque and Solyndraesque scam divulges itself.
Just The Factys Please, Mr Snake - Oil Salesman
It is long overdue for the Wind Industry to be forced to run the real numbers and utilize real physics.
The only one who stands to gain anything seems to be the wind shills.
So here is the basic math if you are not math challenged. We don’t get what we pay for , ever , with the renewable scam.
Now , if you really want to subsidize, it (subsidization) must be looked at on a PER-UNIT of OUPUT Basis.
Renewable suck in the money for next to nothing in return.
In 2007, natural gas fired electricity got just .$25 per megawatt hour federal subsidization and natural gas produced more than 900 million megawatt hours of electricity on demand , base load 24/7/365 days a year! (EIA official stats).
In 2007,wind produced 31 million MW-hrs! (EIA data), at $23.37 subsidized per MW-hr !
The wind power sector therefore got 93 times as much in federal subsidies as natural gas , even though the natural gas sector produced 28 times more electricity than wind, of high value base load!
Remember gas gets .$25 (25 cents)mW-hr.Wind got $23.37 MW-hr subsidization
Gas generated 900 million MW-hrs! Gas was subsidized 25 cents ($.25) per MW hr.
Feckless wind generated 31 million Mg-watt hours! Subsidized $23.37 per MW-hr!
And also remember, natural gas was available 24/7/365, wind has no base load capacity. Wind is highly intermittent and was not available on demand and has no base load capacity.
(This is all official Energy Information Administration Data )
WE CAN’T AFFORD THE WIND FARCE ANY LONGER! Business cannot afford power at over double the price, sometimes when the wind blows!
Wind is intermittent , non –base load power. YOU NEVER GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL about the electrons Wind produces, other than the fact they are very costly!
Gas, Hydro, other high density sources of electrons are the only way to go.
And the new domestic shale gas reserves of 2500 trillion cubic feet will last this country a very long time!
Let’s be adults here and do the right thing concerning energy, not fad following global warming children.
How about a Fact Mr. King? Not the HYPE you offer.
UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS FROM THE WIND INDUSTRY
The wind power industry does not cite any body of empirical evidence that wind power:
- reduces emissions
- reduces reliance on imports of fossil fuels
- enhances “energy independence”
- can be easily integrated into a grid system
- reduces electricity costs
Their claims of performance or benefits are based upon theoretical concepts which have failed to materialize into actual practice over more than two decades worldwide.
Suich A Deal, Mr King!
WIND POWER PROPOSED IN MAINE
- Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
So what if it COSTS A LOT MORE, RIGHT?
COSTS FOR ELECTRICITY IN MAINE
- Maine electric rates:
- In 1985 were only 9 % higher than the US average.
- In 1990, 20% higher.
- In 1995, 49% higher.
- In 2000, 52% higher.
- In 2007, 59% higher than US average.
Today we remain approximately 60% more expensive than the rest of the country.
Depending upon the category of customer, Maine’s electric rates range from #9 to #6 most expensive in the US. Many states (like Iowa) pay rates two and a half times lower than ours. If we ever do need more electricity in Maine, rather than wind, there are numerous ways to get more power which have far less impact and far greater benefit to our economy and environment.
This disparity in our electric bills is an annual penalty on Maine businesses and consumers of $700 million, equivalent to 25% of our state tax collections.
At about three million dollars per MW for wind projects complete with remote transmission connections, the capital costs for installing a wind generating facility are around three times more expensive than for conventional generating plants. For instance, a typical natural gas facility would incur capital costs of about one million dollars per MW.
The mid-sized 540 MW CalPine plant in Westbrook is an example of how Maine could generate 675 MW of electricity in one small industrial park rather than sprawling wind turbines over 360 miles of pristine and remote ridges. The fuel for the wind turbines is free, but all other aspects of windpower, including functional lifespan, are far more costly.
A recent power purchasing agreement between a Massachusetts utility and a wind power company will increase customers’ rates by an average $1.59 per month. That utility has 7 times the number of customers that our utility, Central Maine Power Company has, and that single contract calls for the utility to purchase merely half the power from one wind farm. This alarming rate impact from a tiny addition of purchased power shows the potential devastating impact of widespread wind purchases.
King Wind, a Subsidized Failure if FACTS are applied ..SCIENCE?
The Science of Wind Facts concludes with a simple but poignant excerpt from John Droz: Wind Power – How We Got Here. Droz reminds us of how wind power fails almost every historical test for viability in grid-scale electricity generation:IT FAILS ALL THE BELOW!
The first practical use of electricity, in the late 1800s, is generally attributed to Thomas Edison (a founder of General Electric). Of course there were actually dozens of people who contributed to making commercial electricity a reality. And there were a LOT of formidable hurdles to overcome. One of the initial primary issues was: where was this electricity going to come from? For the first hundred years or so, there were six over-riding concerns about commercial electricity generators:
1 - could they provide large amounts of electricity?
2 - could they provide reliable and predictable electricity?
3 - could they provide dispatchable 1 electricity?
4 - could they service one or more of the grid demand elements 2?
5 - could their facility be compact 3?
6 - could they provide economical electricity?
1 Dispatchable means a source can generate higher or lower amounts of power on-demand,
1.NO, 2.No 3.No 4. NO 5.No 6.NO
The King Snake Oil Scoundrel of Wind Scamming Moves South!
He is neither virtuous nor wise.
Wind developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Wind Fails , Again , and Again, Why Team with a LOSER?
WIND FAILS AS A GRID-SCALE SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY
Our compilation of Wind Facts concludes with a simple but poignant excerpt from John Droz: Wind Power – How We Got Here. Droz reminds us of how wind power fails almost every historical test for viability in grid-scale electricity generation:
The first practical use of electricity, in the late 1800s, is generally attributed to Thomas Edison (a founder of General Electric). Of course there were actually dozens of people who contributed to making commercial electricity a reality. And there were a LOT of formidable hurdles to overcome. One of the initial primary issues was: where was this electricity going to come from? For the first hundred years or so, there were six over-riding concerns about commercial electricity generators:
1 - could they provide large amounts of electricity?
2 - could they provide reliable and predictable electricity?
3 - could they provide dispatchable 1 electricity?
4 - could they service one or more of the grid demand elements 2?
5 - could their facility be compact 3?
6 - could they provide economical electricity?
1 Dispatchable means a source can generate higher or lower amounts of power on-demand,
Do Maine Businesses like the "Green Renewable RIP OFF?"
COSTS FOR ELECTRICITY IN MAINE
- Maine electric rates:
- In 1985 were only 9 % higher than the US average.
- In 1990, 20% higher.
- In 1995, 49% higher.
- In 2000, 52% higher.
- In 2007, 59% higher than US average.
Today we remain approximately 60% more expensive than the rest of the country.
Depending upon the category of customer, Maine’s electric rates range from #9 to #6 most expensive in the US. Many states (like Iowa) pay rates two and a half times lower than ours. If we ever do need more electricity in Maine, rather than wind, there are numerous ways to get more power which have far less impact and far greater benefit to our economy and environment.
This disparity in our electric bills is an annual penalty on Maine businesses and consumers of $700 million, equivalent to 25% of our state tax collections.
At about three million dollars per MW for wind projects complete with remote transmission connections, the capital costs for installing a wind generating facility are around three times more expensive than for conventional generating plants. For instance, a typical natural gas facility would incur capital costs of about one million dollars per MW.
The mid-sized 540 MW CalPine plant in Westbrook is an example of how Maine could generate 675 MW of electricity in one small industrial park rather than sprawling wind turbines over 360 miles of pristine and remote ridges. The fuel for the wind turbines is free, but all other aspects of windpower, including functional lifespan, are far more costly.
A recent power purchasing agreement between a Massachusetts utility and a wind power company will increase customers’ rates by an average $1.59 per month. That utility has 7 times the number of customers that our utility, Central Maine Power Company has, and that single contract calls for the utility to purchase merely half the power from one wind farm. This alarming rate impact from a tiny addition of purchased power shows the potential devastating impact of widespread wind purchases.
"Wind Mills, We Don't Need no Stinkin' Wind Mills!" HA! HA!
MAINE ELECTRICITY GENERATION TODAY
Maine has over 4200 megawatts of electric generating capacity, yet load (need) is only 1000 to 1500 MW. Maine is a net exporter of electricity. Our New England grid has over 30,000 MW of electric generating capacity. Average load is about 16,000 MW during the day, dropping to about 11,000 MW at night. Peak load has never exceeded 30,000 MW.
At 30% and escalating to 40%, Maine’s Renewable (electricity) Portfolio Standard is the highest in the nation.
Maine’s electric generation mix is already very green and it does not rely on imports from overseas. Over 90% of Maine’s generation is from biomass, hydro, and clean natural gas. By contrast, the state of Iowa gets over three quarters of its electricity from coal plants.
Given projections, there is no need for massive buildup of new electricity generation. The primary driver of electricity usage is population growth.
According to the census Bureau, Maine's population is projected to be only 4% higher in 2030.
New England is only projected at 6% and the Middle Atlantic Region is at 2.4%.
Wind Companies Are Open Liars
UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS FROM THE WIND INDUSTRY
The wind power industry does not cite any body of empirical evidence that wind power:
- reduces emissions
- reduces reliance on imports of fossil fuels
- enhances “energy independence”
- can be easily integrated into a grid system
- reduces electricity costs
Their claims of performance or benefits are based upon theoretical concepts which have failed to materialize into actual practice over more than two decades worldwide.
DO THE MATH
WIND POWER PROPOSED IN MAINE
- Maine’s statutory goal is 2700 megawatts of wind power on land
- As many as 1800 turbines, 400 feet tall
- 360 miles of developed wilderness ridges
- Thousands of new clearcuts for transmission corridors
- At a 25% capacity factor, this actually produces only 675 megawatts. This small amount of power could be produced at one medium-sized conventional natural gas power plant.
DO THE MATH, NOT THE POLITICS.
WIND POWER IS A SUBSIDIZED COSTLY FARCE!
Don't Bitch Maine Businessesd as Your Electric Costs Soar!
Maine Business is Being SCREWED by Wind!
Never mind that in 2010, oil and natural gas provided nearly 200 times as much energy to the U.S. economy as all solar and wind energy production combined. Never mind that the Energy Information Administration recently estimated that wind-generated electricity costs about 50% more than that produced by natural gas-fired generators while solar-generated electricity costs at least 200% more.
The Farce called Wind Power Blows from the Top
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Just Another" Oinker "at the Subsidy Trough ,Screwing Mainers!
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Wind Snake Oil Salesmen.
They are neither virtuous nor wise.
Wind developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
THEY Will TRy To Get AWay with Everything, and ANYTHING!
Remember this, there is no Ethics when dealing with Wind Scoundrels and Liars.
Have an ethics code as a precondition with all selectmen and developers.
Follow this :
1. Do you have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
Clear Sky bove, Dirty Scoundrels Below
The Freedom of Inmformation Act has started to expose the heinous process now underway in Sumner. You do know of course that some citizens know the game. Listen to them, listen to others who have come before you, and are now sorry they could not or did not act more forcefully.
FOIA precipitated the response of the Selectmen.
The only reason to cause panic with FOIA is if there is something to hide,
AS THERE ALWAYS IS, with Wind Scoundrel Companies and the uncivil dealings pursued in towns throughout Maine concerning wind scamming, and subsidy sucking.
Fact: Citizens retained a lawyer to serve FOIA on the town concerning its dealings with Eolian.
the procfess has begun, but now, citizens know the game too!
Ordinance Up , before it is too late .
Vermin always spread rapidly.
Beware the Wind Scoundrels Knocking at YOUR DOOR!
Now properties are for sale with no buyers in Lincoln, people are aghast at the project. It is too late for the fools in Lincoln, don't add to the fools of Sumner!
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of "Wind developers"in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
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Freedom of Information Act was served on Sumner BTW !!!
That precipitated the response of the Selectmen.
The only reason to cause panic with FOIA is if there is something to hide,
AS THERE ALWAYS IS, with Wind Scoundrel Companies and the uncivil dealings pursued in towns throughout Maine concering wind scamming, and subsidy sucking.
Fact: Citizens retained a lawyer to serve FOIA on the town concerning its dealings with Eolian.
Let the fun begin, but now, citizens know the game too!
Ordinance Up , before it is too late .
Vermin always spread rapidly.
Freedom of Information Acts Perform Wonders , DON'T THEY?
Particularly, when there is something to hide!
The citizens of your town have learned well from others, and know the game, and how to play with wind scoundrels.
You can all resign, but you won't be able to hide.
All those affiliating with wind scoundrels ....
Take notice.
Many citizens now know the game, and will not allow the selectmen to benefit, or be coerced, bribed or collude any longer.
The pressure is up.
Break home rule and the constitution of Maine, as encouraged by the likes of Enronesque First Wind, and you better resign!
Transparent process is a must, and we know that it is not being followed , as encouraged by LD-2283.
Ordinance this slime out of Maine.
Divisive, you bet.
And citizens now know the game.
It will get worse.
Civil Disobedience , A High Calling!
The Wind Liars and self-servers should take heed.
It will only get stronger!
It is not only the environmental issue ,
It is citizen rights over corporate collusion , greed and lies!
And what is Civil Disobedience, "is it planned" the attorney asked foolishly: "Is Breathing Planned" I would respond.
Civil Disobedience is :
n.
Refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by the use of passive resistance or other nonviolent means.
Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is also an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery
IT IS NECESSARY, from its very definition.
Earth First follows this high calling to change injustice .
Win or lose , they only have won in exposing the lies of Wind Scamming in Maine.
Since the laws have been written of, by , and for the wind industry,
"a little bit rebellion now and then is a good thing"(Jefferson).
As far as many are concerned , Earth First are True Patriots!
IT LOST ! Get used to that fact. Elections have consequences!
The citizens will defeat it again even tho a perverted process will be tried again!
Honor their decision now!
The citizens have spoken twice!
Knowledge is Power. Citizens know the game now, and more are learning every day!
Educating the population will put an end to the self-servers of Rumford and scoundrels of First Wind.
Is This what it is all about Sir? ?
an anonymous source says:
"I went to the OCEAN ENERGY CONFERENCE yesterday and the vendor area was plastered with posters that a vendor was a supporter of industrial wind farms. The wind industry had a large booth and presence….very intimidating indeed!
Lots of money at stake ….subsidies are driving the entire thing. I had one ‘consultant’ brag about how they ‘bribed’ fisherman off of cape cod, err. ‘Involve them’; in doing crab counts--$2 for return of a tagged crab, etc.; and other survey chores. After the payoff, the opposition of the fisherman withered away."
First Wind is very good at it, and to date (notice to date), has not gotten caught in Maine.
Have an ethics code as a precondition with all selectmen and developers.
Follow this :
1. Do you have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
The laws of Rumford are for all , they are for everyone!
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the privileged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
If their dog defecates on your lawn, it IS your business. If the dogs defecate on everyones lawns, it is the all the citizens business.
Wind Industrial Complexes are everyones business!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afghanistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also remember from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
contact http://www.windtaskforce.org , as well as http://www.celdf.org
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
The laws of Rumford are for all , they are for everyone!
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the privileged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
If their dog defecates on your lawn, it IS your business. If the dogs defecate on everyones lawns, it is the all the citizens business.
Wind Industrial Complexes are everyones business!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afghanistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also remember from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
contact http://www.windtaskforce.org , as well as http://www.celdf.org
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
The laws of Rumford are for all , they are for everyone!
It is good to see you are hitting the self-servers Rumford!
They are Upset, YOU BET, and TOUGH!
You should be Defiant and Steadfast!
Remember, you are "The Town of Rumford", with laws not for the priveleged few, but made for all, and we will all help,from everywhere!
Is This Syria, Libya, Afganistan? The self-servers wish it was!
Patriots are proud You Use the Process they bled and died for!
Use it well, it is yours!
Also rememeber from my earlier posts, there are literally no consequences for wind energy liars, we have no ethics code in Maine!
It is only YOU who can stop this with your rights and laws.
Now remove the self- serving selectmen, and strengthen and protect yourselves with a lock tight ordinance from heinous Industrial Wind.
It is your Right, indeed duty, to protect your back yard!
Use the charter of the town, it is your town, not the privileged self-servers and First Wind.
Rumford has never seen anything like this before have they?
The word is out, and Rumford is making its stand!
Kudos to the Citizens of Rumford!
Kudos to those citizen patriots who helped defeat the scoundrels and self - servers!
You have just cost First Wind more time and more money. Well done!
They will be back, but you will be stronger.
AND OTHERS ARE THERE TO HELP STATEWIDE, we are United!
contact http://www.windtaskforce.org , as well as http://www.celdf.org
Ask for more help , and you will get it . Although First Wind and their minion now give you a respite , they will be back...
....but so Will You..Good Citizens of Rumford!
The more you educate , the more they will come to your side!
Ignorance and perversion of process and greed are their only allies.
Knowledge IS POWER!
I am a full believer in the US Constitution!
I am full supporter of the Bill of Rights.
That should give you your answer.
A rebellion against scoundrels and liars and collusive process!
and YES Mr. Fallon, and they will do it again!
Liars and self-servers should beware in Rumford now.
It will only get stronger!
It is not the environmntal issue at all really,
It is citizen rights over corporate collusion , greed and lies!
Well done Rumford! NOW KICK the VERMIN OUT!
You have seized your Destiny from First Wind scoundrels and self-servers in your community.
You have EXPOSED the Bribed!Now kick out the culprits!
Now Ordinance Them Out!
Contact Citizens Task Force and CELDF.org
Develop a Civil Disobedience Environmental Ordinance, or just lock arms and kick them out, it is your town, not theirs !
Contact any others who can help you protect your lives and property from these scam artists.
Congratulations on Seizing your Destiny!
The defeat in Lincoln and elsewhere because of the perverted process used by First Wind should never happen again.
You have saved the process.Lincoln never had a chance, the cancer was too deep, but your'e wise vote has recognized the disease!
NOW CUT IT OUT TOTALLY!
You have given hope to citizens in seizing their rights!
Ordinance the VERMIN OUT, and NOW!
Mr. Fallon and Rumford citizens, please answer on these points
Quite to the point really,
1. Do you (Mr. Fallon) have, had or will have benefited financially from this or other wind projects in your area?
Are you a self-server?
2. Do you know if the selectmen have had secret meetings, financial dealings or other arrangements with representatives of First Wind in crafting this ordinance, and can they meet the transparency and ethics standards as put forth in my post below, (which are indeed the law in NY State). Are any selectmen self-servers?
...Remember, Maine has no such ethics laws, and indeed, a cash transfer to a town father would have to be caught on camera to declare it a violation of ethics in Maine, as Maine basically has no law in this area?
3. Mr Fallon, should selectmen declare that they follow the ethics code posted in your belief, and if not, why not?
4. Do selectmen take an oath in Rumford upon gaining office, and to whom is it?
Wind Scamming is everyones responsibility in Maine, sorry!
I suggest you get more involved in getting more facts and help stop the farce that is occurring in Rumford with First Wind.
We went through this in Lincoln, and they had a ten year secret head start here.They never let us vote here, because of the lies and secret dealings with inside town players and financial self-servers were too well seated. THey love perverting your town process; that is what they do for a living!
Indeed, the Lincoln project is in a rural residential zone , non-rezoned as required by law. Legal actions remain fully open here and in Maine. Citizens are aghast at the damage to the lakes , hills and area by this scoundrel company here .
Legal actions are in the works , and noise and real estate damage issues remain.
Beware, you are being had.
Get an Ethics code NOW for the town first, you are being had
by secret dealings ......The AG of the state needs to act before you go further.
Has the below been part of the process in Rumford?
Has the minimum of 1 through 6 below been met in Rumford?
Because of the scope, size, environmental impacts, health and property value impacts, and potential permanent changes to this rural community, we the People of Lincoln(applies to all towns in Maine) and surrounding communities must know all the facts, so we, the citizens, are sure that all the standards of ethics and integrity of legal process have been upheld. The history of the dealings of the above aforementioned company must be completely scrutinized, as is being done in New York State at this moment. We have every reason to believe, and do insist, that the Code of Ethics governing these companies recently adopted in New York State be applied in Maine to assure that the public is properly protected and has the time to fairly evaluate the values and pitfalls of this new industry to our area.
We therefore request that the Attorney General of Maine establish this code that:
1.Bans wind companies from hiring municipal employees or their relatives, giving gifts of more than $10 during a one-year period, or providing any other form of compensation that is contingent on any action before a municipal agency.
2.Prevents wind companies from soliciting, using, or knowingly receiving confidential information acquired by a municipal officer in the course of his or her official duties.
3.Requires wind companies to establish and maintain a public web site to disclose the names of all municipal officers or their relatives who have a financial stake in wind turbine development.
4.Requires wind companies to submit in writing to the municipal clerk for public inspection and to publish in the local newspaper the nature and scope of the municipal officers financial interest.
5.Mandates that all wind easements and leases are in writing and filed with the County Clerk.
6.Dictates that within thirty days of signing the Wind Industry of Maine Code of Ethics, companies must conduct a seminar for employees about identifying and preventing conflicts of interest when working with municipal employees.
In addition, the establishment of a Citizen Review Board with direct legal consul from the Attorney General will be created to oversee and monitor the above Code within Maine.
The above Maine Ethics Code for Wind Industry companies is essentially the same as that which Attorney General Cuomo of New York State established on October 30, 2008. It was created because of the ongoing legal investigations initiated by citizens against First Wind and Noble Environmental Power in New York State. These investigations remain ongoing.
The Citizens of Maine must have this code to ensure that fair and ethical dealings be established by Windpower companies in Maine with it citizenry.
We cannot allow the ‘Windrush’ in Maine to undermine integrity of legal process, as well as impact communities in a multitude of ways,some of which may be detrimental , without a full , transparent process in place.
At this moment no such process exists in Maine. We insist on a statewide moratorium on wind development until the Maine Ethics Code for the Wind Industry is established.
This "REVISED ORDINANCE" is a DANCE WITH FIRST WIND LIARS!
This REWRITE is a Travesty, a PRO-WIND REWRITE by and for scoundrels ans self-serving interests!
If Citizens of Rumford accept this piece of trash, you get what you deserve!
In Lincoln, as hjas probably been done already in Rumford, the slect folks were influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to.
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed and ethics code against the underhanded dealing, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First Wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you must ordinance them out!
THIS TRASH REWRITE IS PRO FIRST WIND ONLY!
REJECT IT TOMORROW, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.Visit Lincoln.
Don't be fools.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
Haddock never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing.
REJECT THIS SINISTER LIE OF A REWRITE!
THEY ARE PLAYING YOU FOR IDIOTS!
ORDINANCE THEM OUT, OR BE RUINED!
To all you Fools Investing in Renewables, I invested in Exxon!
Dense Energy Research Will always Win, Sorry, that is Thermodynamics!
from
Wall Street Journal 6/10/2011
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s huge new oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico is good news for domestic energy production, but it's even better news as a sign that last year's panic over the BP spill won't continue to cripple American offshore oil exploration. Every so often, reality triumphs over politics.
Exxon had been ready to drill on the site last year before the Obama Administration shut down all deepwater drilling in the wake of the BP spill. The Interior Department is still issuing very few permits, only 15 for new wells since it lifted its moratorium in October, but Exxon received one of them and struck black gold at 7,000 feet below sea level and some 230 miles at sea.
That's nearly 3,000 feet deeper than BP's Macondo well and shows how technology and innovation have opened up oil and gas resources that were impossible to detect, much less reach and develop, only a few years ago. Exxon estimates the field contains some 700 million barrels of oil equivalent, one of the largest finds of the last decade.
The great energy irony of recent years is that governments have thrown hundreds of billions of dollars at wind, solar, ethanol and other alternative fuels, yet the major breakthroughs have taken place in the traditional oil and natural gas business. Hydraulic fracturing in shale, horizontal drilling and new seismic techniques are only the best known examples.
Private companies must innovate to survive, and they have the profit incentive to do so, while government cash is usually steered to politically favored companies that may or may not know what they're doing. If you live off federal grants, you need to work the corridors of power more than the technology. Federal grants for cellulosic ethanol are rife with political earmarks, for example. This is why these columns have argued that the political fad of alternative energy has misallocated scarce capital when the economy can least afford it.
The risk of oil spills has not vanished. But one lesson of the BP debacle is that better management and practices could have prevented it. The Obama Administration is making it harder to obtain permits, which will eliminate all but the biggest companies from deepwater drilling and (unfortunately) raise the cost of production.
Far more important for safety is the effort that the oil industry is taking to contain future deepwater spills. ConocoPhillips, Exxon, Shell and Chevron have led an effort, since joined by other companies, to form the Marine Well Containment Co. to build a spill containment system that will be permanently placed in the Gulf starting next year.
The companies are attempting to apply the lessons from the BP fiasco, and their expectation is that the system would be able to handle a blowout as if it were a contained well at depths of up to 10,000 feet. The companies have committed $1 billion to the project, and we're told the cost could reach $1.5 billion. If you believe Big Oil companies are inherently evil, you'll think this is one more confidence trick. But no rational company or CEO wants to endure the reputational damage that accompanied the BP spill.
The Exxon discovery is a display of the animal spirits that still live in the U.S. energy industry, notwithstanding the political efforts to stifle them. As much as Washington tries, the U.S. economy is hard to keep down.
as for Renewables...well , try again in 100 years with the Blowtoys!
Let's Not Be Renewable Energy Children!
LePage gets it more thn many do.
It is long overdue for the Wind Industry to be forced to run the real numbers and utilize real physics.
The only one who stands to gain anything seems to be the wind shills.
So here is the basic math if you are not math challenged. We don’t get what we pay for , ever , with the renewable scam.
Now , if you really want to subsidize, it (subsidization) must be looked at on a PER-UNIT of OUPUT Basis.
Renewable suck in the money for next to nothing in return.
In 2007, natural gas fired electricity got just .$25 per megawatt hour federal subsidization and natural gas produced more than 900 million megawatt hours of electricity on demand , base load 24/7/365 days a year! (EIA official stats).
In 2007,wind produced 31 million MW-hrs! (EIA data), at $23.37 subsidized per MW-hr !
The wind power sector therefore got 93 times as much in federal subsidies as natural gas , even though the natural gas sector produced 28 times more electricity than wind, of high value base load!
Remember gas gets .$25 (25 cents)mW-hr.Wind got $23.37 MW-hr subsidization
Gas generated 900 million MW-hrs! Gas was subsidized 25 cents ($.25) per MW hr.
Feckless wind generated 31 million Mg-watt hours! Subsidized $23.37 per MW-hr!
And also remember, natural gas was available 24/7/365, wind has no base load capacity. Wind is highly intermittent and was not available on demand and has no base load capacity.
(This is all official Energy Information Administration Data )
WE CAN’T AFFORD THE WIND FARCE ANY LONGER! Business cannot afford power at over double the price, sometimes when the wind blows!
Wind is intermittent , non –base load power. YOU NEVER GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL about the electrons Wind produces, other than the fact they are very costly!
Gas, Hydro, other high density sources of electrons are the only way to go.
And the new domestic shale gas reserves of 2500 trillion cubic feet will last this country a very long time!
Let’s be adults here and do the right thing concerning energy, not fad following global warming children.
We Can't Afford the Scam any Longer, Others See Why as Well
LePage has done his homework. And he actually represents rate and taxpayers interests'--how refreshing!
MORNING ROUNDUP: Dominion Will Not Choose Offshore Wind Until Price Drops
Wed, May 11, 2011
http://offshorewindwire.com/20...
March 11, 2011; Source Offshore Wind Biz: Headline:
KENTISH Flats operator Vattenfall has warned that the offshore wind farm industry must reduce its costs or risk “dying out.”
http://www.offshorewind.biz/20...
Constellation Opposes Offshore Wind Power Mandates
March 7, 2011 2:40 PM
BALTIMORE (AP) — Constellation Energy says requiring utilities to buy offshore wind power will cost customers billions at the expense of more cost-effective clean-energy alternatives.
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/...
Cape Wind cost:
"Global Marine Energy Lessons Learned:Offshore Cable Installation"September 2010"Lesson: Offshore Wind is Too Expensive!" (page 20) http://www.globalmarine-energy...
The Cape Wind NGrid D.P.U. approved contract assumes 24.4 cents per kWh is commercially reasonable on behalf of Massachusetts’ residents, employers, municipalities, commercial and industrial customers in the 170 communities served by National Grid. (3.)
'It Is Easy to Be Green — When SomeoneElse Pays the Bill'
Jonathan A. Lesser is founder and president of Continental Economics Inc.
Jonathan A. Lesser, Ph.D. President
“…The initial purchase price under the contract was set at $207per megawatt-hour in 2013, increasing 3.5 percent each year.Thus, by the end of the contract, the price would be just under35 cents per kilowatt-hour. However, National Grid’s ratepayerswould pay an even higher price because the Green CommunitiesAct also includes a 4 percent “adder” that accrues to the utilitysigning the long-term contract, raising the price paid by ratepayersto $215 per MWh. The contract also included provisions toincrease the price in the event that Cape Wind did not qualify foreither the federal investment tax credit or the federal productiontax credit. Without either of those, the initial price would increaseto $235 per MWh and, adding in the 4 percent adder, ratepayerswould pay $244 per MWh.”
Continue reading:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regul... The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions
The media remain conspicuously silent about the real price we pay for wind energy, says Christopher Booker.
In all the publicity given to the opening of "the world's largest wind farm" off the Kent coast last week, by far the most important and shocking aspect of this vast project was completely overlooked. Over the coming years we will be giving the wind farm's Swedish owners a total of £1.2 billion in subsidies. That same sum, invested now in a single nuclear power station, could yield a staggering 13 times more electricity, with much greater reliability.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com...
This is not about public interest served by reliable and affordable energy. This is about public subsidies and turf courted
Maine Needs Renewables Like A Hole in Ones Head, Besides..
We have plenty of Hydro and other competitive sources than we need NOW!
Why is the U.S. going Broke though?
Why Does Maine stay poor?
This is a great example why. Wind Power in Maine.
We subsized First Wind at high levels, upwards of 70 percent, WITH OUR U.S. DOLLARS.
They build projects with our federal taxes , "tax incremental funding" dumb towns give them more local tax money and give away their municipal taxes for multimilion dollar projects, so First Wind can get more tax breaks with our dollars.
The towns smile because they get a new fire engine from the deal. The taxes of the town go up, because of lost tax base.
First Wind buys Chinese Turbines with our U.S. dollars, and then spin the company and development dollar to Canadian companies (or Spanish in the case of CMP) as we then PAY for THE POWER LINES to deliver next to no power, feckless power out of state.
Some temporary construction jobs are created, and we call it job growth in MAINE!
I guess this state even dumber than it is desperate.
We Mainers THEN PAY THE HIGHER electric RATES for power AGAIN, AND WE ALLOW BREACHING MAINE LAW with this combination of a generator and a transmission company (Bangor Hydro), and rates go up again FOR MAINERS!
But we do get the wind sprawl and financial and ecologic damage, and the sole of the state is destroyed. Vacationland dies a slow death to the wind.
Not only are WE BROKE FROM THIS ENRON SCAM, WE ARE DUMB TO PERMIT IT to continue!
NOTE, First Wind now has more projects in Maine (and growing), than ANY state in New England.
ARE WE THE DUMBEST state in New England, or the most desperate?
You answer please.
Yes , aren't renewables great, and needed?
Fight Back Rumford!
Communities under home rule preserve natural rights to preserve their land, air and water.
Communities can totally ordinance out by local rule wind turbines.
See http://www.celdf.org ( Citizens Environmental Legal Defense Fund . Contact chad@celdf.org)
"Civil Disobedience Ordinances" are fully called for in this respect. Rumford,do it or be ruined. The selectmen who say you have no right to regulate out by ordinance are being told distorted facts by the wind lobby and First Wind, or are being bribed or otherwise self-serving and protecting themselves.
Recall them, disobey their preaching, confront them.
Do not give in.
Get the facts.
Stop the process before those in control metasticize beyond control in your communitiy like they did in Lincoln, where the citizens were lied to consistently .
First Wind is controlling your process, and some selectmen are probably under their direct influence now.
DON'T BE FOOLS!
Fight it tooth and nail, or YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Come to Lincoln and see what is at stake.
Fight Back Rumford! Be Defient, or Wind up like Lincoln!
Is the “displacing of signs” by citizens an illegal act?
They ARE YOUR SIGNS, YOU PAID FOR THEM, BEST TO BURN THEM in PUBLIC!
Was the dumping of tea into Boston harbor an illegal act?
History will show both were needed and necessary to repel the scoundrel interlopers!
Rumford, Lock arms and Kick First Wind out!
Always remember this;
They are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen
They are neither virtuous nor wise.
The developers like First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals...They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas like Rumford and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin.
They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine.
They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
Angus King and his son, a CEO of First Wind involved in Merger and Acquisition of Wind projects, are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using past political history to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Kick them out!
You Can Ordinace Them out, First Wind Lies!
In Lincoln, as is probably being done right now in Rumford, the council was influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to, saying, "We will take legal action against you."
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed an ethics code against their underhanded dealings, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you can, ordinance them out!
Do so, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
They never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing, use it.
There is No Law when dealing with First Wind
In Lincoln, as is probably being done right now in Rumford, the council was influenced, bribed, coerced, and lied to, saying, "We will take legal action against you." They lied!
The same things occur wherever they go. NY State developed and ethics code against the underhanded dealing, but Maine has no effective protections, other than aware citizens defending their rights.
First Wind is a cabal of underhanded liars!
This is the same old crap modus operandi used wherever these scoundrels go.
They have disdain for you and the law. Their pretty faces hide their sinister goals.
You can, and I repeat this, you must ordinance them out!
Do so, or be ruined like Lincoln was. Those opponents of the project are heroes in Rumford.
They are responding with facts and knowledge.
Listen to them. Ordinance out First Wind, or be ruined, for naught.
Come to Lincoln, and see for yourself what has occurred.
Go to Mars Hill and talk to the residents on the east side. Talk to the abutters on Vinalhaven.Go to Freedom, speak to the Bennetts.Visit Lincoln. Don't be fools.
Do not let your isolation define your decisions and fact procurement. You are being played as if you are foolish fish, biting at a juicy worm.
Do you not have more brains than a haddock?
Haddock never destroy their own spawning grounds, but Rumford is about to, and thinks they have no control because the fisherman says the hook won't bite!
There is time to do the right thing.
No answer given?
The question is most basic, and presently unanswered.
Any Community can Ordinance Out Turbines
Communities under home rule preserve natural rights to preserve their land, air and water.
Communities can totally ordinance out by local rule wind turbines.
See http://www.celdf.org ( Citizens Environmental Legal Defense Fund . Contact chad@celdf.org)
"Civil Disobedience Ordinances" are fully called for in this respect. Rumford,do it or be ruined. The selectmen who say you have no right to regulate out by ordinance are being told distorted facts by the wind lobby and First Wind, or are being bribed or otherwise self-serving and protecting themselves. Recall them, disobey their preaching, confront them.
Do not give in.
Get the facts. Stop the process before those in control metasticize beyond control in your communitiy like they did in Lincoln, where the citizens were lied to consistently . First Wind is controlling your process, and some selectmen are probably under their direct influence now.
DON'T BE FOOLS!
Fight it tooth and nail, or YOU WILL BE SORRY.
Come to Lincoln and see what is at stake.
Come up and Visit Lincoln, then Vote Them Out!
A picture is worth a thousand words, and seeing is believing.
Visit Lincoln and see the once " Land of 13 Lakes", (now ruined).
See the Land of 40 Turbines!
It is a good place to visit , and leave quickly after seeing the blades spin and the noise spread.
Then decide, non-self - serving residents of Rumford!
Don't let the Scoundrels and financial sell-outs take your towns sole for greed and subsidy scamming.
And how much money are you selling Rumford's sole for huh?
How much ?
You are an obviuos self server, RECUSE YOURSELF
How much money do you make by your support?
How much did they pay you?
Don't be Fools like Lincoln was. Come visit, then restrict them
Now properties are for sale with no buyers in Lincoln, people are aghast at the project. It is too late for the fools in Lincoln, don't add to the fools of Rumford!
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They(First Wind) have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of First Wind in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
Rumford, Study what happened in Lincoln
because, it is now happening to YOU!
This is what people should know about the handling of the Rollins Wind project. It should set off alarms with anyone who values the ideal of participatory democracy and has a sense of fairness.
1. It is the first project that was rammed through as a result of the heinous Expedited Wind Permitting statute, which has opened the floodgates for the proliferation of these projects, a giveaway of rural Maine to an industry that wouldn't exist without extensive Taxpayer subsidies and preferential treatment.
2. First Wind was wooing Lincoln elected and appointed public officials for more than 6 years before announcement of their plans. Instead of being responsible public servants and sponsoring an extensive public examination of the issues, they did everything possible to open the door to a company with questionable reputation.
3. The only public forum ever held in Lincoln was a carefully controlled First Wind "Dog & Pony Show" that raised more questions than provided answers to any citizens who asked questions rather than just accept the company's propaganda.
4. After First Wind's intentions became clear in September of 2008, the Lincoln Town Council refused to enact a Moratorium to provide the community with an opportunity to consider the multiplicity of issues raised by a citizens' group and within two months, the First Wind application was deemed "complete" and the countdown under the Expedited Wind Permitting began relentlessly.
5. One single copy of the huge, 3-volume application was available to read at Town Hall, but the Planning Board, so eager to do the bidding of First Wind, set a hearing on the application for the absolute minimum number of days for public notice. The compact disc and on-line versions of the mind-numbing detail in the application was available only 3 days before the public hearing.
6. At the public hearing, the Chairman of the Planning Board refused to recuse himself over conflict of interest, that being, he was the realtor who represented the major landowner as lessor for parcels included in First Wind leases. The citizens were given 2 minutes each to comment on the complex application. The chairman and a stalwart zealot on behalf of First Wind attempted to ram through a vote that very night until one Planning Board member questioned whether Board members had read what they were about to vote on. When they admitted they hadn't, the vote was postponed.
7. When the Planning Board met 2 weeks later, no further public comments were allowed, yet when questions were asked of representatives of First Wind, the company was allowed unrestrained time to advocate for the project. The application was quickly pushed through for approval. A huge, community-altering change to the Lincoln Lakes area approved with about the same consideration as someone proposing to add a tool shed to his or her property!
8. The Town Council approved the Planning Board's decision in a meeting where citizens were given 5 minutes each for comments, doing so even when it was faced with an even larger crowd asking questions critical of the project. First Wind officials were not subject to the Egg Timer and was unfettered in its obvious advocacy for approval.
9. The Lincoln Town Council agreed to have First Wind pay for the town's lawyer at Eaton Peabody to negotiate the TIF agreement with First Wind's lawyer at Eaton Peabody and rubber stamped the resulting give back of 50% of the property taxes to be generated.
10. The Appeals Board in Lincoln strategized with First Wind to attack and discredit the citizens group and voted that the hastily organized group lacked standing to appeal the Planning Board's decision to violate Lincoln's Land Use Ordinance in approving an industrial development in a rural residential zone.
11. The follow through on this horrendous un-civic process at the state level has been as bad. It started with the DEP refusing to hold a formal hearing where sworn testimony and cross-examination can take place. To date, throughout the state, this has been the case because the Expedited Wind Permitting statute does not allow it. DEP only has a local "meeting" to allow citizens to raise questions and make comments, most of which are answered with wind industry propaganda or no answer at all.
12. The DEP staff and the Board of Environmental Protection (and LURC in non-DEP jurisdictions) have clearly been marching to the orders of Baldacci, who has made proliferation of the wind industry his legacy. It is abundantly clear that state workers fear speaking out of line and the BEP members, all Baldacci appointees, are following through to allow the environment of rural Maine to be devastated by at least 45 projects the size of the Rollins project in Lincoln Lakes.
13. The courts have turned their backs on the serious issues raised by citizen groups. The State Supreme Judicial Court, even after several members pointedly examined the issues, voted to say the Expedited Wind Permitting statute is the will of the Legislature (which voted it through as a last minute, non-publicized, bill in the short session of the Legislature in April 2008) and they would not rule against it.
So here we are, with an undeserving company that steamrolled over local officials, handed the undue opportunity to ruin a beautiful corner of Maine. Sadly, Lincoln has failed and it will never be the same. When the First Wind project is finished and the impact gets realized, in Lincoln there will be a lot of regrets expressed.
Stop Them From Eating Your Town!
First Wind's 'proper channels" are bribery, collusion,deception, payoffs, handouts, and connections to the power elite of Maine to make this travesty happen. Ask Angus King as well how it is done.
Stop Them From Eating Your Town!
“ Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.”
- Andrew Jackson-
We all need to take more actions to combat this corporate scam in Maine.
Rumford, Ordinance up, or die to the wind!
Scoundrels and Modern Day Snake-Oil Salesmen
Always remember this; they are All Despicable Snake Oil Salesmen.
They(First Wind) have probably bought off several selectmen in all probability, and had secret session illegal meetings, the modus operandi of First Wind in Maine.
They are neither virtuous nor wise. The developers like King and First Wind are mostly cynical profiteers out to make a buck, who pull the necessary strings and grease the necessary palms to win their approvals.They are opportunists who travel to financially distressed rural areas of Maine and entice unsuspecting residents and rural folks to sign their lease agreements which neuter their rights to their own land.Most of the others are ill-informed and idealistic-and maybe a bit impulsive-who have no idea what they are in for once the blades of the industrial energy generator begin to spin. They reassure energy committees and town fathers that everything will be fine. They bribe with other half baked schemes. Talk is cheap!
They are no more than despicable snake oil scoundrels and salesmen, using political influence and your tax dollar to make millions off the backs of Mainers to scam taxes and desecrate environment.
Believe nothing they say , and kick them out, or you will be ruined, like Lincoln was.
Just remember, the "Eyes" of Citizens Were Removed by LD-2283!
AND Tourists have eyes!
Visual Impact is considered IRRELEVANT under Expedited Wind Law. Thank yous go to Baldacci's "Governor's Task Force on Wind Power" . But remember this:
It is not really the Wind Power issue in Maine or” Green Jobs”, it is the “GREENBACK”, out of the citizens pockets, into vested special interests deceptive coffers. It is the scamming, self-serving subsidy sucking interests of wind scoundrels in the state versus the average citizen who has not been allowed a voice in the process by the quasi-legal legislated Expedited Wind Law. Its creators, with the scamming wind lobby are what has been in control to date.The Task Force even forgot to record important decision making sessions on site selection discussions ? Sure!
But , the public is waking up!
So are Maine businesses, as they know that their electrical costs will be doubling in the “Green Future” shortly if this scam is allowed to continue.
For every Green Job created, 2 to 3 others will be lost in affiliated industries that cannot be the subsidy piggies of the Green Promotion by Federal subsidization. It is a scam of epic proportion. Government picking of energy winners always turns out to be a loser for us all.